News US wholesale giant Alliance Entertainment acquires ANconnect’s Walmart and Best Buy accounts Major news for the bricks and mortar sector of the US market
Analysis News At this rate, music downloads will be dead by 2020 Tracks have plummeted by 42% over the past four years
News Indie publishers up in arms over ‘unmitigated disaster’ of 100% licensing 'Nothing has been fixed but everything has been further broken'
News Staff trimmed at PRS For Music, but average wage creeps up Average salary climbs to £51,620 as PRS loans ICE project millions of startup capital
News Thriller songwriter Rod Temperton signs to Warner/Chappell Brit also wrote Rock With You, Off The Wall and Burn This Disco Out
News The Official UK Top 10 Singles Chart is starting to get pretty boring Only one new entry in Top 5 rankings in a month-and-a-half
News Richard Russell to receive AIM Pioneer Award in September 'He is a composer, musician, producer, collaborator, inspirer...'
Interviews A discreet revolution: How Fintage House helped the music business grow up How a company that started in a bank became big news
News Kobalt Label Services signs The Naked And Famous 'Great artistry along with a world class management team' draws Kobalt to band
News Crunch time for Sony/ATV’s $750m Jackson deal as rivals tell EC it will damage marketplace MBW obtains EC's survey which asks pointed questions about the deal
News Lee Morrison named MD of new venture Seaside Music Group Ex-Believe Digital UK exec looks to build new services company based in Brighton
News UK live agent Adastra merges with Regent Music to form new JV Folk, Roots, World, Jazz and Americana specialist JV formed
News BMG on course to score UK and US No.1 album with Blink 182 today Hartwig Masuch told MBW last month that BMG was "very serious" about its recordings business
Analysis News How Spotify and Apple are winning a blockbuster war against YouTube The biggest songs in the world are now far more popular on audio services
News Zach Katz takes charge at BMG in the US as Laurent Hubert steps down Katz moves up after becoming US publishing boss just four months ago
News Hein van der Ree joins Brett Gurewitz and Lionel Conway’s Mothership Music Ex-Buma Stemra boss joins growing publishing company
News Now Warner sells records by Athlete, Steve Harley and more to Chrysalis Divestments keep rolling - but all to the same party