Music Business News: Europe

Italy generated recorded music revenues of $392.4m last year, and landed at No.10 on the list of the world’s Top 10 markets

Market's recorded music revenues grew 27.8% in 2021

‘Free’ music streaming paid the record industry $4.6bn in 2021… and other key insights from the latest IFPI Global Music Report

MBW crunches the IFPI's latest numbers – and discovers some head-turning facts and figures

‘The pandemic reminded people how much they wanted to be at a show.’

Ben Lovett’s tvg Hospitality has raised $50m. Here, the Mumford & Sons musician and entrepreneur explains how his firm plans to spend that money…

CISAC: ‘Each individual society should decide on whether to maintain their business relationships with Russian societies.’

CISAC clarifies position on RAO

Believe generated $682m in annual revenues last year, up 30.7% YoY

New results announced by Paris-headquartered company

Round Hill buys music rights from Herman Rarebell, original drummer in The Scorpions

The Scorpions are estimated to have sold over 100 million records globally

Jo Charrington named Co-President of EMI Records, teaming up with Rebecca Allen to run Universal’s biggest UK label

Charrington signed and developed the likes of Sam Smith and 5SOS at Capitol

Spotify is paying $310m to Barcelona for a sponsorship. According to our calculations, that’s more than it’s ever paid an artist in royalties.

Spotify announced its big deal yesterday. It's worth 89.08 billion streams.