Music Business News: Europe

On… Deezer nuzzling up to Universal’s ‘artist-centric’ model, a potential mass deletion, and a controversial tweak (update)

It's been a big day in the music business – and it's raised a lot of possibilities...

Who owns Deezer today?

Access Industries is Deezer's biggest shareholder, with ownership of over a third of the company

Spotify tests restricting lyrics access to Premium subscribers (report)

Music streaming giant Spotify tests making lyrics a premium-only feature

PRS for Music expands ‘Nexus’ metadata program, with new initiative to link songwriter info to recordings prior to release

PRS for Music unveiled its Nexus works metadata portal last year

Apple acquires 50-year old classical music label BIS Records

Deal follows the launch of Apple Music Classical earlier this year

Popular artists to get ‘royalty boost’ on Deezer as platform readies ‘artist-centric’ model with Universal Music Group

Deezer and UMG announce the launch of what they call the "first comprehensive artist-centric streaming model"

Multiple criminal gang members confirm they’ve used Spotify for money laundering in bombshell new report in Sweden

An explosive new report from Svenska Dagbladet in Sweden focuses on the end purpose of streaming fraud on Spotify for organized criminals: laundering money.

France’s recorded music revenues grew 9.4% YoY in H1 – and the entire Top 10 best-selling artists in the market were local acts

Industry body SNEP published its H1 recorded music revenue numbers for the market