Music Business News: Europe

Round Hill acquires catalog of Massive Attack members Robert Del Naja and Grant Marshall

Deal compromises first five albums released between 1991 and 2010

Mike Watson promoted to CFO at Warner Music UK

He takes on the role following the departure of Peter Breeden, who left the business last month

Darcus Beese exits Island Records to ‘pursue new career opportunities’

Universal confirms British exec is returning to the UK

Nuclear Blast Records appoints Jerome Riera, Gerardo Martinez and Marcus Hammer for new global management structure

Believe acquired a majority stake in the label in October 2018

‘In the music business, there is no such thing as an independent within a major.’

Henry Semmence, founder and MD of UK-based Absolute Label Services, on what Sony’s acquisition of AWAL means for the wider independent sector

Spotify lost the equivalent of $2.2m every day in 2020… as it spent over $1bn on sales and marketing in the year

MBW shines the spotlight on SPOT's 2020 fiscal results – on the black ink... and the red ink

Concord promotes seven executives to VP, SVP and EVP roles

Promotions occurred across all of the company’s business areas in Los Angeles, New York and London

Why Soundcharts, used by all three major record companies, is ‘not your typical music data aggregator’

Soundcharts CEO, David Weiszfeld, on the music industry's future evolution – and his company's role in it