News Online video ‘value gap’ severely damages streaming payouts in France Video services claim 65% of plays, but pay just 10% of cash to artists and labels
News Drake is Spotify’s most popular artist in history… and right now Drake is 10 million streams ahead of Bieber thanks to Views
News UMG poaches iMusica boss as Universal Brazil President exits after 13 years Paulo Lima to succeed José Eboli as President in crucial country for music's growth
News Horus Music cements expansion into India with business development hire Malini Hariharan joins UK-born company celebrating its tenth anniversary this year
News Spotify hires Francis Keeling to head up global licensing Widely respected exec left Universal after 14 years last month
News Tom March and Ben Mortimer named co-Presidents of Polydor Records Duo join the label where Lucian Grainge made his name
News Pandora’s own biggest shareholder gives damning verdict on company Tim Westergren under fire from Corvex, which owns 10% in business
News John Esposito named CEO and Chairman of Warner Music Nashville Former PolyGram and WEA exec steps up to top job
News Independent publishers fight against market concentration – and for more streaming cash Annette Barrett and Pierre Mossiat explain IMPF's mission
News Spirit B-Unique acquires Polar Patrol Publishing Acquisition includes tracks from Ed Sheeran's X co-written by Johnny Mcdaid
News !K7 rebrands as it expands management division Tricky says company is "best management I've had in 22 years"
News Widespread lay-offs at Global as Entertainment division is stripped After much fanfare, new talent division incurs heavy job cuts in UK and US
News The Stone Roses release first new material in 22 years on Virgin EMI and Columbia Ted Cockle's team will handle release of hugely anticipated album
News UK-based Music + Sport expands to present shows at rugby grounds Jess Glynne confirmed for first show on June 18
News Why did Universal Music Group’s profits dip in Q1 despite its revenue rise? A €23m special items / restructuring cost hurt UMG's bottom line in the first three months of this year
News Vevo is moving into ‘long-form programming’ – and looking for stars Platform on the lookout for 'non-traditional sources such as internet based talent'
News YouTube launches tool to enable ‘faster, more accurate royalty distributions’ DDEX update is free to download and open-source
News SOCAN predicts dramatic YouTube revenue uplift as it acquires Medianet SOCAN says it is now the 'leader in accurate matching of music data'