News Lyor Cohen signs Meg Mac to 300 Entertainment Aussie artist won Triple-J's Unearthed Artist Of The Year
News That U2 Apple stunt wasn’t the disaster you might think it was 24% of surveyed consumers listened to U2 in January
Analysis Why Universal is losing patience with freemium music UMG digital income down 2.8% on a constant currency basis in 2014, MBW discovers
News Who were Universal’s most important artists in 2014? Taylor Swift was biggest selling artist at UMG in the year
News Universal Music Group sales fell 6.7% in 2014 – as EU income overtook America Publishing income climbs 2.8% in the year
News Universal Music Group readying €7m swoop for Croatia’s biggest label, say sources News comes in same month that Warner snapped up Polish label
News Friday Global Releases: ‘Terribly disruptive’ or ‘compelling logic?’ Beggars Group, Ministry, Cooking Vinyl and more respond
News UK Official Chart day to move from Sunday – US likely to follow Billboard and Nielsen have been discussing change "for months"
News Google Ventures pumps funds into Kobalt, leads $60m investment round GV and MSD amongst investors in $60m funding round
News Spotify introduces lyrics but phases out third-party apps on desktop 'Following in the footsteps of app integrations such as Songkick'
Blog IFPI: The ‘compelling logic’ for a Friday Global Release Day 'There has been no credible alternative to a Friday proposed that would work at the global level'
News Global Release Day confirmed as Friday; backed by HMV, Spotify Trade body says it consulted with artists, retailers and labels across the world