News Live Nation acquires festivals from Canadian promoter Union Events Events including X-Fest and Sonic Boom now under Live Nation control
News Pandora rival MixRadio shut down by LINE 14 months after Nokia sold it Japanese messaging giant blames financial realities for closure
News Keith Jopling joins Spotify as Global Head, Strategic Intelligence Former IFPI and BPI exec will work across multiple markets
News Kanye West says his new album ‘will only be on TIDAL’. Sadly, he’s wrong. The Life of Pablo tops piracy charts as Kanye goes exclusive
News Darius Van Arman: Majors ‘too often abuse their scale advantage’ Secretly Canadian boss calls on majors not to be 'Two Face Harvey'
Blog Who will build the music industry’s Global Rights Database? Is blockchain the answer - and should we approach it as a tech company?
News Imagem sells off its Production Music company to ole Buyout adds 240,000 tracks to growing Canadian company's repertoire
Analysis Martin Mills: Majors must pay artists fairly if we’re to win safe harbour fight 'We have never been more divided than we are today'
News Sony Music strikes direct licensing deal with South African telco 'Sony will administer all royalties payable to their artists directly'
Analysis Billboard’s Power 100 shames the music biz and should trouble us all The entire Top 30 is made up of white faces. Are we okay with that?
News Apple Music just added a million paying subscribers in a month Platform on course to top 20m subscribers by the end of 2016
News YouTube acquires BandPage for undisclosed fee Platform previously partnered with Spotify and others
News Merlin cuts administration fee for members by a fifth 'We look forward to delivering even greater value' says Caldas
News Eventbrite acquires event management system Queue Tool combines event booking, box office and guest list administration
News Jobs go as Universal Music Group wraps up global restructuring International, distribution and Capitol Music Group all affected by changes
News Charlie Walk becomes President of UMG’s Republic Group Monte Lipman calls exec "imaginative and fearless"
News Pandora losses hit $170m last year, as active listeners shrunk Revenues fly through $1bn for full year in 2015