News Holland’s CTM signs Dirty Dancing, Little Feat, Steve Miller deals Sub-publishing deals for Imagem's sister company
News Universal Music Group Distribution brand closes, functions re-homed Two key execs pinched from Sony Music and Warner Music
News Warner owner Len Blavatnik is Britain’s richest billionaire Blavatnik is 18 times richer than Sir Paul McCartney
News Don’t spend it all at once, artists: Pandora is paying out $0.0001 more per stream than it was last year Service now paying out $0.0014 each time an ad-funded user streams
News UK’s independent festivals contribute £1bn to economy in four years £296m generated in 2014 alone
News As Norway prepares to switch off FM radio, local networks protest Stations question true dominance of DAB, and vested interests
News Songwriters suffer from ‘nonsensical disparity’ of streaming payments… says a Grammy-winning artist 'The time for change is now', argues Ne-Yo
News Pandora loses 2m listeners and $48m in three months Total active listeners fall under 80m people
News Sony/ATV signs Afrika Bambaataa outside North America 'Godfather' of genre began working in 1970s
News Universal signs deal with Philips LED cinema technology Morrissey and Queen concerts to be given makeover
News Metrophonic renews global publishing deal with Universal Agreement includes songs from Paul Barry and Mark Taylor
News Universal Publishing Production Music launches new label BLOCK will provide hip-hop and urban music for TV, film, radio and advertising clients
News India’s music business will almost double in value by 2019 – KPMG Optimistic forecast, but subscription services income cut in half in 2014
News Canada’s ole acquires Mark-Cain catalogue and Taurus recordings Includes Max Webster, Ian Thomas and Lawrence Gowan tracks
News Warner/Chappell promotes Katie Vinten to VP of A&R 'She's an exceptional publisher who time and again brings out the best in songwriters'
News Facebook has 10 times as many users as Spotify and Pandora combined Total video views on social network now rival YouTube
News New Deezer CEO to address ‘freemium vs. premium’ at Midem 2015 Exec to speak on June 5 in Cannes