Music Business News: Europe

How Four Tet vs. Domino points to our industry’s profit-share future

This op/ed comes from UK-based Hunter Giles, who co-founded and leads Infinite Catalog, a royalty accounting software + service company

Metaverse company XONE joins Abbey Road Red tech incubator, whose startups have raised over $70m so far

XONE is a tech startup operating within the music and Web3 space

BMG acquires Jean-Michel Jarre’s entire music publishing catalog

Acquisition is the biggest single deal ever struck by BMG in France

Netflix lost 970,000 subscribers in Q2. How will Spotify fare?

ARM, Netflix's equivalent of ARPU, was up 7% at constant currency YoY

Amuse, now majority-owned by the UK’s Bridford Group, posts 61.5% revenue growth in 2021

In addition to growing its revenue last year, the firm also managed to reduce its operating loss by a third

BMG acquires music interests of Scottish rock band Simple Minds

BMG says that the deal marks its eighth acquisition in the UK this year

Italian Court Orders US Tech Giant CloudFlare to Block Access to BitTorrent Sites

“CloudFlare’s services were making it possible for users to access copyright infringing websites which were ordered to be blocked by the Italian regulator AGCOM."

Believe CEO accuses major record companies of lobbying streaming platforms to lower royalty rates for DIY artists

Majors are pressuring the likes of Spotify to give superstars better rates, says French exec – and he doesn't love it