News Live Nation buys yet another festival with BottleRock Napa Valley deal Company control more than 80 music festivals worldwide
News Official: Ed Sheeran racks up 88m first-week Spotify plays with just two tracks UK singer/songwriter breaks a number of global records on streaming platform
News Vincent Clery-Melin exits Kobalt, joins Domino as MD Appointment comes four months after John Dyer left business
News Italian label Frontiers signs new distribution deal with Sony RED and The Orchard New records from Michael Bolton and Steelheart expected this year
Analysis What does the future hold for Sony Music and Sony/ATV? Why does Sony Corp seem to be treating Pictures and Gaming differently to music?
News Sony Entertainment boss Michael Lynton exits for Snap Inc Rob Stringer was set to report into Lynton when he steps up in April
News Actually, Sirius IS interested in buying Pandora… ‘at the right price’ Greg Maffei makes private noises about another acquisition bid
News Pandora slashes 7% of US workforce – over 100 jobs set to go News comes less than a month after COO Sarah Clemens announced resignation
News Warner resurrecting Asylum label in the US under ADA Dante Ross heading up A&R at imprint, which is enjoying success with Ugly God
News Soundcloud co-founder Eric Wahlforss switches job as firm hires CTO Wahlforss is now Chief Product Officer, leading the strategy around all product initiatives
News Kobalt inks deal with Emeli Sandé’s Hard Copy Publishing Sandé helms the London-based firm alongside artist manager and producer Lamar Jackson as MD
News Deezer’s Chief International Officer exits for newspaper publisher Gerrit Schumann joined Deezer in 2013 as VP of Europe and was promoted in 2015
News Miles Beard and Jeff Vaughn step up to VP of A&R at Atlantic’s APG The duo have worked with artists including Charlie Puth, Kevin Gates and Young Thug
Analysis Is BBC radio playing enough independent music? Just 2% of Radio 1’s 100 most played tracks of 2016 were ‘pure’ independent releases
News Sacem teams with IBM to build ‘transparent’ online royalty system URights will be open-source so other CMO’s worldwide can integrate their catalogues
Interviews ‘If the livelihood of songwriters is threatened, the music industry as a whole is threatened’ Reservoir's Golnar Khosrowshahi talks A&R and the publishing landscape
News Irving Azoff’s GMR secures global deal for Prince performance rights Deal has been in place since October 2016 on a worldwide basis
News Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd generated £198m in revenue over last financial year Post-tax profit tops £14m but falls year-on-year