Music Business News: Germany
News Hartwig Masuch says exec "understands our philosophy and business model intimately" News Paid-for Spotify rival now available in four European markets News Six-month free bundle deal echos EE partnership in the UK News Budde Music boss and independent publishers up in arms News LP's Lost On You shoots up the charts across the EU News Collection society confirms that it wasn't seven years' bad luck for German writers News Seven year battle over as two parties reach a truce News Exec has led BMG since it re-launched as an independent in 2008