Music Business News: France

Johnny Hallyday album shatters records, selling more week-one units in France than Drake’s Scorpion did in the USA

MBW expects that the album generated more than $14m in a single week

Forget Drake. The music sales story of the year could soon be Johnny Hallyday.

Mon Pays C'est L'amour shifted more than 630,000 copies in three days

SACEM signs multi-territory digital licensing deal with Music Sales Group

SACEM will manage the licensing, collection and distribution of royalties for nearly 120,000 works

Why Believe just bought 49% of one of France’s leading indie labels (and why it’s not worried about Spotify’s user uploads).

Denis Ladegaillerie discusses his latest acquisition and Spotify's big move

Pascal Nègre: ‘Article 13 would take the music industry backwards.’

"It would erect new barriers for the creators and artists," says French music industry legend

The major labels now turn over more than $1bn a month. But who’s ruling 2018?

Streaming revenues at the major labels have almost doubled over the past two years

Universal and Sony are now turning over more than $500k from streaming every hour

And they're both generating over $1m an hour from all formats...

Kobalt signs David Guetta to global publishing admin deal

Deal includes back catalog including No.1 records