Music Business News: France

France set to introduce streaming data into albums and singles chart

No word yet on formula, but it's coming

Deezer promotes Aurélien Hérault to take on Spotify’s Discover Weekly

Exec tasked with improving personalised playlists

Universal launches free music streaming service with watchmaker

Raymond Weil deal is UMG's latest white label streaming platform project

Ad-funded streaming revenues declined in France last year

Both video and audio ad-funded models paid out less to labels

France’s record industry has been cut in half – and it’s still shrinking

Market down 7% overall as streaming passes €100m annual milestone

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