News Warner/Chappell Production acquires news theme company 'Gari is a well-known and trusted source for these themes'
Analysis Here’s a cold, hard fact about Spotify. Can the music industry live with it? A quarter of Spotify's users pay - a stat that's been the same for three years
News Spotify storms past 15m paying subscribers milestone Platform has added 10m users in a month-and-a-half
News Pandora’s share price tumbles 50% in a year Concern over a slowdown in listening hours hits hard
News Rock music is twice as popular as pop in America – but R&B rules streaming Rock takes 33% of album sales vs. pop's 11%
News New Spanish chart counts streams, downloads and CD sales Streaming accounts for 70% of Spain's national singles chart
News Proper signs EU-wide partnership with H’Art Musik and Bertus Distribution Proper becomes 'one stop shop' for distribution in Europe
News Radio, not YouTube, is still king of music discovery 51% of US consumers use radio to discover new music
News Actually, album sales are doing fine in America… so long as you’re not iTunes, Walmart or Target 'Non-traditional' retail posts 5% increase in album sales
News US music fans now spend more on concerts than CDs, downloads and streaming combined Streaming claims just 3% of the average fan's yearly spend
News Is Universal fixing streaming’s transparency problem? Bono seems to think so… U2 man says UMG can 'direct-credit' artists with streaming payments
News Most hit singles in the UK are by non-British artists More than 97% of CD singles sold in Japan are by local artists
News Deezer set to challenge Spotify in US after swooping for Muve Pricetag believed to be less than $100m
Analysis Which country loves its own artists the most? Artists: if you want to feel the local love, learn some Japanese
News Universal creates ‘Data Alliance’ with comms group Havas 'This will super-charge our efforts' says Lucian Grainge