Music Business News: France

France’s Naïve label on the verge of a sale – sources

BMG and Warner believed to be amongst would-be buyers

Taylor Swift’s 1989 led Universal’s 10 biggest money-makers last year

UMG now judges its biggest records on revenue, not unit sales

Streaming killing the music business? UMG just posted its biggest revenues in a decade

Streaming, publishing and exchange rate play a key role

No-one is indispensable at Lucian Grainge’s leaner, meaner Universal

What does Pascal Nègre's departure tell us about UMG in 2016?

Universal is music’s first billion dollar streaming record company

Streaming income up more than €300m, total UMG income up more than €500m

Sony and Universal neck-and-neck in race to rely on streaming

Both companies drawing 24% of income from streaming

Pascal Nègre leaves Universal Music France in shock exit

Veteran exec, who first joined Polygram in 1990, out at major

BMG acquires rights to hit ‘Feelings’ and other Loulou Gasté songs

Widow Line Renaud approves deal with rights firm in France