News Forever young? The average age of today’s biggest pop stars is 38 Michael Jackson, AC/DC and Pink Floyd on list
News Vevo rival AdRev paid out $14.8m to music rights-holders in 2014 AdRev currently represents more than 7 million copyrights
News Warner pulls catalogue from Simfy in Germany Streaming service promises 'every song, anytime and anywhere'
News Major labels look to crush The Pirate Bay in Sweden Bredbandsbolaget protests move, citing internet freedom
News Spanish music promoters protest over ‘absurd’ VAT rates 'This is a real problem that affects everyone'
News Pandora: Our $0.001 per stream payout is ‘very fair’ on artists. And besides, now we can help them sell tickets. Pandora pays around 1/6th of Spotify's per-stream rate
News MCN Rightster strikes music deal with Microsoft Lumia #lumiamusic campaign operated in UK, Russia, France, Germany, Poland and Italy
News Live Nation wins six-year ‘monopoly’ US legal battle It's My Party case has dragged on since 2009
News Warner revives Giant as singles label in Sweden Label was founded by Irving Azoff but mothballed in 2001
News ASCAP promotes Lummel to head ‘transformation’ of company New role will 'implement new, best-in-class tools and services'
News Global dives into US market with ex-AEG boss Randy Phillips Global Publishing moved into new structure
News BMI hires Warner/Chappell’s Sweeney as Global Policy head Exec will fight to maximise global royalty collections for BMI
News Van Halen catalogue to be administered by Atlas Music Publishing Works were previously published by Warner/Chappell
News Irish recorded music industry tumbles to €33m annual income Recommendations made to Irish government
Analysis Spotify is paying out 100% more money for its biggest tracks than it was a year ago Approximately US $2m was paid out to firm's Top 50 last week
News Vevo suffers blow as Universal signs windowing deal with Vessel Universal follows Warner onto service
News Kobalt swoops for Drive movie score company CEG Rights Other scores included in deal include The King's Speech and Whiplash
News Jay Z is buying a streaming service that ‘is not fully funded for the coming year’ Tidal is 'currently unprofitable and capital consuming'