Analysis No-one is indispensable at Lucian Grainge’s leaner, meaner Universal What does Pascal Nègre's departure tell us about UMG in 2016?
Analysis News Universal is music’s first billion dollar streaming record company Streaming income up more than €300m, total UMG income up more than €500m
Analysis Sony and Universal neck-and-neck in race to rely on streaming Both companies drawing 24% of income from streaming
News Rak Sanghvi ‘hits the ground running’ as Spirit B-Unique signs 3 new deals John Newman amongst banner signings for company
News Pascal Nègre leaves Universal Music France in shock exit Veteran exec, who first joined Polygram in 1990, out at major
News Vevo confirms it’s going to launch a subscription tier Erik Huggers says ad-supported-only model 'isn't sustainable'
News Spotify wants 30m subscribers so badly, it’s giving away Google Chromecast Streaming service signed deal with Google device in September last year
News YouTube thinks Adele will win two BRIT Awards next week Video views and streaming data predict BRITs winners
News Daniel Ek on YouTube, SoundCloud and why he didn’t build Spotify to sell it 'Streaming is behind the growth in music, and Spotify is behind the growth in streaming'
News Pandora is now paying publishers 1/5th of the money it gives labels Publishers would have seen a share of $140m in 2015
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'