Music Business News: Europe News Hipgnosis Songs Fund Chair, Andrew Sutch, to step down; all-important ‘continuation vote’ looks likely to happen on October 26Shareholders will vote on whether to keep Hipgnosis Songs Fund as a close-ended investment entity next month News Do Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones plan to sell their catalog? No – but it could be donated to charity.Jagger told the WSJ that “the children don’t need $500 million to live well. Come on.” News PPL to sponsor A&R Awards category celebrating behind-the-scenes linchpinsFast-growing collection society supports award for 'the glue of the A&R department' Interviews With 20bn streams to date and annual revenues of over €25m, Romania’s Global Records sets its sights on expansion in the GSA regionDiana Munteanu, Head of Label at Global Records, and Julian-Dominik Vicari, the company's new market head in Germany on the company's strategy for the GSA region. News Jet, rock band behind ‘Are You Gonna Be My Girl’, strikes ‘landmark’ catalog deal with BMG'Jet are a generation-defining band,' said Heath Johns, BMG President, Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia Analysis News [PIAS] boss Kenny Gates on Deezer x Universal’s ‘artist-centric’ model: ‘For labels who invest every year, relentlessly, in new talent, this has to be good news.’ Thought the debate had died down? Think again... News Africa-focused music streaming service Mdundo reaches 26.6m Monthly Active UsersMdundo also reported a 239% YoY jump in revenue from paid subscriptions News Vivendi exploring sale of ticketing firm See Tickets (report)Vivendi acquired See Tickets UK in its entirety in 20111 2 … 646 Next
News Hipgnosis Songs Fund Chair, Andrew Sutch, to step down; all-important ‘continuation vote’ looks likely to happen on October 26Shareholders will vote on whether to keep Hipgnosis Songs Fund as a close-ended investment entity next month
News Do Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones plan to sell their catalog? No – but it could be donated to charity.Jagger told the WSJ that “the children don’t need $500 million to live well. Come on.”
News PPL to sponsor A&R Awards category celebrating behind-the-scenes linchpinsFast-growing collection society supports award for 'the glue of the A&R department'
Interviews With 20bn streams to date and annual revenues of over €25m, Romania’s Global Records sets its sights on expansion in the GSA regionDiana Munteanu, Head of Label at Global Records, and Julian-Dominik Vicari, the company's new market head in Germany on the company's strategy for the GSA region.
News Jet, rock band behind ‘Are You Gonna Be My Girl’, strikes ‘landmark’ catalog deal with BMG'Jet are a generation-defining band,' said Heath Johns, BMG President, Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia
Analysis News [PIAS] boss Kenny Gates on Deezer x Universal’s ‘artist-centric’ model: ‘For labels who invest every year, relentlessly, in new talent, this has to be good news.’ Thought the debate had died down? Think again...
News Africa-focused music streaming service Mdundo reaches 26.6m Monthly Active UsersMdundo also reported a 239% YoY jump in revenue from paid subscriptions
News Vivendi exploring sale of ticketing firm See Tickets (report)Vivendi acquired See Tickets UK in its entirety in 2011