Music Business News: Europe

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Deezer added 600,000 new subscribers in Q3, and its revenues rose 5.5% YoY

Deezer has published its financial results for the third quarter of 2023

Abbey Road Studios to host third Abbey Road Amplify event

The event will also be live-streamed on the Abbey Road Studios website

BMG, following ‘more efficient and more effective’ strategy under new CEO Thomas Coesfeld, reorganizes structure; around 40 staff cut

MBW obtains internal note that confirms a range of changes at Bertelsmann-owned company

From Spotify changing its royalty model to Universal’s $3bn in Q3… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days

Hipgnosis Songs Fund has been left concussed by ‘discontinuation’. But with a seemingly rock solid ‘call option’, Merck Mercuriadis still holds all the cards.

On: Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the all important 'call option', Blackstone, and the most likely outcome of this week's mess

PRS For Music sponsors Pop category at the nearly-here A&R Awards

Royalty collection/distribution giant supports hyper-competitive category at imminent big night

The Beatles’ last song ‘Now and Then’ to be released November 2

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr relied on AI tech to salvage the song that John Lennon wrote and recorded as a demo in 1978