Blog The music industry’s worst nightmare is nearly here: Amazon and Apple as content kings Amazon is becoming a content producer. Apple is already a label. Worried?
News Italian football league Serie A signs major music licensing deal SCF represents more than 95% of all repertoire distributed in Italy
Analysis News Shazam valued at $1bn – but it hasn’t turned a profit for over 7 years Last posted a net profit in 2006 - £4.28m
News It took one person to write Happy by Pharrell Williams. It took 16 to write Timber by Pitbull. Dr Luke scored three hits on three continents in 2014
News Imagem signs global deal with Berlin’s Steam Music Co-publishing deal comes just a month after shutters were put up on potential sale
News John Fleckenstein appointed EVP of RCA Exec moves over from International Marketing role at Sony
News Spotify: how free music and OAPs can help us become Angry Birds 'There are 7bn people in the world. 6.95bn don't use Spotify. That's mind-blowing.'
News Pharrell ruled EU radio in 2014 – but Milky Chance stuck up for the independents Stolen Dance was heard on 15.8bn separate occasions across Europe in 2014
News You won’t believe how much K-Pop stars are earning. No, really, you won’t. Girls Generation's income makes Premiership footballers look like paupers
News Primary Wave takes on Hollywood talent under new merger Deal follows recent acquisition of Evolution Entertainment Partners
Blog Here’s what’s left of London’s famous 12 Bar Club in Soho The signage has gone as developers move in
News Stefan Baumschlager joins YouTube as publishing Manager Ex-Rdio and Last.fm exec's next move revealed
Analysis 94% of Radio 1’s most-played songs in 2014 were major label releases Radio 2 Top 50 contains exactly the same major/indie ratio
News Gaming video giant Twitch now offers 500 royalty-free music tracks EDM-focused Music category beta opens up
News Shutterstock snaps up royalty-free music firm PremiumBeat for $32m PremiumBeat will continue under Francois Arbour