Music Business News: Europe

Music’s addicted to the ‘Monthly Active User’ metric. But it tells us nothing.

The following op/ed comes from long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde

Sally Davies appointed Managing Director of Abbey Road Studios

Exec joins Abbey Road from Vivendi Village where she was CEO of U-Live

Utopia divests again, as Absolute Label Services gets reacquired by original leadership team

News marks the third time this year that Utopia has offloaded a company that it previously acquired within the past 18 months

Interviews

‘Amazon Music operates at 100 miles per hour, at all times. That’s fine. It matches mine and the team’s ambition’

Laura Lukanz, Amazon Music’s principal point person for the industry in the UK, looks back on her time in radio and then management, and discusses the power and future of streaming…

News

CAA in talks to sell majority stake to billionaire François-Henri Pinault in $7bn deal (report)

Pinault's family is behind the Kering group, which controls Gucci, Balenciaga and more luxury brands

Analysis Interviews News

Utopia wants to be the ‘operating system’ for the music industry, and 3 other things we learned from founder Mattias Hjelmstedt’s new interview

In a rare interview on the Dealmakers podcast with Alejandro Cremades, Utopia founder Mattias Hjelmstedt dropped some hints as to what has been happening with the company

Analysis

Hipgnosis Songs Fund may soon sell some copyrights. Why – and who might be the buyer?

What's happening with one of the week's big stories – and where we think it might go in future

Analysis News

English language music’s popularity on streaming services is shrinking in the US… and globally.

English language music is becoming statistically less popular on streaming services