Music Business News: Europe

Ted Cockle exits as boss of Universal’s Virgin EMI in the UK

Cockle has run the label, one of the UK's biggest, since 2013

Stormzy pledges £10m over 10 years to support black charities and organizations in the UK

'Black people have been playing on an uneven field for far too long and this pledge is a continuation in the fight to finally try and even it.'

Competition concerns raised in the UK over Viagogo’s $4.05bn buyout of ticketing rival StubHub

viagogo has five working days to address the competition authority's concerns

Strictly Confidential signs Ghostpoet; partners with Ugandan labels Nyege Nyege Tapes & Hakuna Kulala on publishing divisions

Ghostpoet has received two Mercury Prize nominations

TIDAL now officially a suspect in Norwegian data fraud investigation

Norway's equivalent of the FBI seizes documents that contain "business and operating secrets"

Ryan Newman promoted to Head of Editorial for Apple Music in the UK

Newman was previously Editor of the BBC's 1Xtra and joined Apple in 2018

Raft of senior music execs call for removal of ‘urban’ descriptor at major UK music companies, anti-racism training for staff

Execs from all three majors and influential independents sign letter addressed to UK business leaders

Official: Austin Daboh joins Atlantic Records UK as Executive Vice President

Exec was previously Apple Music's Head Of Editorial for the UK & Ireland