Analysis News Cooper responds to Spotify's confirmation that it will be raising some prices in key markets, including the US News New results show strong growth on same period of 2020 News The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place News Seton joins SoundCloud from Warner Music Group News Former Sony exec Kreidich takes new role just months after joining Warner and ADA Interviews MBW asked the Hipgnosis CEO and founder to respond to criticisms from his harshest detractors. He said yes. News Merck Mercuriadis delivers defiant message for his doubters in latest message to markets Analysis In short: Streaming and publishing up, recorded music slightly down; overall, WMG was flat vs. calendar 2019