News Drake’s OVO Sound signs expanded deal with Warner Bros PARTYNEXTDOOR and others covered by distribution-plus agreement
News Sony’s The Orchard buys independent distributors finetunes and Phonofile Finetunes and Phonofile to become wholly owned subsidiaries of The Orchard
News Sony/ATV signs worldwide deal with Becky Hill New solo material will be released independently later this year
News The Damned sign to Search and Destroy ahead of eleventh album The upcoming album will be recorded this summer and is the follow up to 2008’s So, Who’s Paranoid?
News SoundCloud Go goes super-cheap in $1 for three months promotion Loss-making service gets aggressive on price with new promotion
News CI forms strategic alliance with Entertainment Intelligence CI's clients will be able to use Entertainment Intelligence for sales and usage data analysis
News ‘Russia’s Facebook’ launches fully licensed new Spotify rival With over 100 million active users, Russian Facebook VKontakte (VK) has the same sized audience as Spotify
News Sir Lucian Grainge named Cannes Lions Media Person Of The Year 2017 British exec will receive gong in France next month
News Ex-Music Week Publisher Dave Roberts joins MBW Roberts will split responsibilities between editorial and business development
News Da Beat Freakz sign with Cloud 9 Music – Bucks to represent in the UK London-based duo have scored cuts with Usher, Chris Brown and Sean Paul
Analysis Why Sony Music’s 2016 numbers are healthier than they first appear Streaming was up over 40% at US$ constant currency - with recorded revenues growing
News Sony recorded music sales fall 6%, hampered by strength of Yen Streaming growth fails to offset unfavorable currency exchange
News Calvin Harris just kind of broke the way Sony reports album sales And The Chainsmokers aren't helping matters, either...
News Warner claims majority share of 2016’s biggest-selling albums Top 50 Beyonce's Lemonade was last year's biggest seller - but Warner took the lion's share of list
News Primary Wave acquires Rough Trade Publishing stake in $5m+ financing deal Rough Trade has signed the likes of War On Drugs, Superchunk, Grizzly Bear, the Magnetic Fields, Against Me!, and Future Islands
News Apple Music secures exclusive rights to Sean “Diddy” Combs documentary Film joins Apple Music's growing stable of exclusive music documentaries alongside Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives