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
News Universal is hosting its own festival in Spain for the second time The Universal Music Festival will see Rod Stewart, Rufus Wainwright and more play
News Nielsen confirms YouTube has fallen behind audio streaming in the US Data is broadly in line with BuzzAngle stats from earlier this week
News Warner’s ADA promotes Brandon Squar to lead global digital strategy Exec will report into David Orleans at independent services division
News This group despises ‘bad behavior’ by music publishers. Guess who funds it? Google, Pandora, Twitter all help bankroll lobbying group fighting the music biz
Analysis News Spotify has surpassed 35m subscribers – and is growing faster than ever Stat means that Spotify currently has more than double Apple Music's subs worldwide
News Jody Gerson and Jon Platt slam consent decree ruling UMPG and Warner/Chappell respond to DoJ decision
News Universal poaches the Head of iTunes and Apple Music in Germany Patrick Mushatsi-Kareba leaves Apple after eight years in the music team
News Download sales have fallen 24% in the past year in the US market Around 130m fewer downloads were bought in H1 2016 than the same period last year
Analysis YouTube’s dominance takes a beating from Spotify, Apple Music and co New BuzzAngle stats show that audio platforms are now dominating streaming