Music Business News: France

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

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