News Spotify hires Universal’s Rob Harvey to head up US label relations Republic/Island Top 40 boss moves to digital company
News Deezer UK hires new Head of Content and Editorial in London Roman Tagoe joins company from Time Out
News Apple Music now has 17 million subscribers, after securing 70 exclusives Spotify is outpacing the growth of its rival
News Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries takes ‘exclusive control’ of Deezer New French competition report reveals ownership structure
Analysis Blog Ticket touts made $3m from the last Mumford & Sons tour. $0 went back to the music industry. Everybody's Management founder Adam Tudhope pens pointed blog about secondary ticketing
News London’s O2 Arena names John Langford VP and GM Langford has spent three years at The Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow
News Drake dominates Spotify’s biggest songs of the summer One Dance was the most-streamed song on Spotify during June 1st - August 31st
News Apple hires Universal’s Brian Rose as David Hawkes steps up at UMG Rose has been with UMG for 13 years, Hawkes for 14 years
News BPI hires first ever COO with MJ Olaore Olaore joins from independent market research company Firefish
News FUGA signs deals with Fire, V2 Benelux, Sounday and Earth Recordings Current label partners include Domino and Epitaph
News Lohan Presencer becomes Ministry Chairman, steps aside as CEO Jonathan Bevan takes over day-to-day running of company
News Paul Pacifico replaces Alison Wenham as CEO of UK trade body AIM FAC boss takes over at label body in November
News Sony slashed 60% of EMI Publishing staff after historic $2.2bn buyout Sony documents show heavy job losses at historic major company
News Universal spent $38m on restructuring in the first half of 2016 UMG completes move away from 'US'/'rest of the world' global setup
Interviews ‘Artists are complicated people. You’ve got to be sensitive to that.’ Big Life's Tim Parry on breaking a big act worldwide - and missing Jazz Summers
News SoundCloud names Google exec CFO, tasked with ‘maintaining our financial health’ SoundCloud lost $44m in 2014 on revenues of $19m
News Former V2/Cooperative exec Neil Robertson joins Music Glue in Australia Robertson is also a former manager of Belle & Sebastian
Analysis Major labels generated $5bn in first half of 2016 – as Universal took lion’s share Universal's streaming market share is greater than its overall holding