News United Talent Agency hires Toni Wallace as Head of Music Brand Partnerships Exec worked with the likes of Pharrell Williams and John Legend at Columbia Records
News ASCAP ramps up Asia-Pacific efforts with CML partnership Miew Lan Chan engaged to oversee society's activities in region
News Big Machine launching global music TV show with Bell Media Scott Borchetta inks wide-ranging deal with CTV owner
News BMG brings together 400,000 production music tracks under one brand BMG Production Music headed up by Geert-Willem Koolhof
Analysis If Spotify delays its IPO into 2018, it faces some serious financial pain How much has Daniel Ek's company promised in terms to secure a $1bn loan intake?
News Downtown launches new company in Japan, partners with Avex 'Japan is the world's 2nd largest music market and has been ignored by western publishers for decades'
News Symphonic Distribution acquires Spanish house music specialist Houseplanet Florida-based Symphonic expands into Europe through buyout
News AMRA signs ex-US deal with rights management company ole Kobalt-owned collection society strikes first major third-party deal
News Ticketmaster hires David Marcus to helm new music division New division to join artist services operation OnTour, the Venues & Promoters ticketing segment and club ticket platform TicketWeb
News Sheila Richman promoted at Atlantic Records to EVP, Press & Media Respected exec joined Atlantic back in 2004 from Island Def Jam
News CBS Radio and Entercom to merge, creating $2bn US radio giant Known as Entercom, the combined company will provide 244 radio stations in 23 of the top 25 US markets
News Netflix signs exclusive music publishing deal with BMG The deal covers music featured in Netflix Originals series
Analysis Apple owns $246bn in cash. What’s it willing to spend on ruling music? Tim Cook is ready to acquire and wants original content. What could that mean for music?
News Mark Zuckerberg: Creators must be paid ‘a good amount’ for premium content Facebook is about to start sharing its ad money. But will it share enough with the music business?
Analysis News Sony Music earned $1.2bn from streaming platforms in 2016 Major label is now generating around $167k every hour from Spotify, Apple Music et al
News Flipagram sold to Chinese news app company Toutiao The deal aims to grow Flipagram’s customer base through recommendation and improve its in-app experience
News The Royalty Network renews administration deal with Imagem in Germany Imagem Music GmbH will continue to administer TRN's publishing rights in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
News Spain’s recorded music market grew in 2016… but by just €3.5m Spain's digital business exceeded €100m in 2016, representing 61% of the market, according to forecasts