Music Business News: Europe

Jannika Nyqvist named Director, Marketing & Artist Services at Sony Music Finland

Exec was previously a Marketing Manager at Universal Music Finland

UK record industry grew by over $100m last year – but is streaming starting to run out of steam?

Another big gain for key market – but first signs of a slowdown are on the cards

Hasbro completes $3.8bn acquisition of Entertainment One

Hasbro now owns albums by the likes of Tupac, Dr Dre and Chuck Berry

Instrumental achieves second UK Christmas No.1 in a row, via artist services arm frtyfve

LadBaby single beats the likes of Stormzy and Lewis Capaldi to the top spot

Hipgnosis acquires catalog from Ariana Grande collaborator Savan Kotecha

His songs have sold more than 375 million copies globally

Naomi Wallace Asher to exit Wixen Music UK

Exec to leave publisher after 10 years

UK tech firm OCL launches mobile D2C marketing platform, Portes

Platform will allow artists to create bespoke engagement and VIP experiences for fans

How Spinnin Records is meeting the ‘challenge of holding on to the attention of millennials’

Spinnin' celebrated its 20th birthday in 2019. Here, CEO Roger de Graaf tells MBW about his career in the music industry and the challenges of marketing dance music today...