Music Business News: Europe

‘Dua Lipa is a musician with a lot to say. Her album will show the breadth of her personality.’

Warner Bros UK boss Phil Christie discusses one of the biggest new artists of the year

Rag’N’Bone Man sells 70k albums in three days in UK market

That's more than the rest of the entire Top 20 combined

Amazon poaches respected BBC Introducing boss Jason Carter

News comes after BBC Radio 1's fourth sub-10m Rajar in a row

SoundCloud hires Merritt Farren as General Counsel, replacing Neil Miller

Farren moves across from Amazon's Audible

Kobalt hires Silvia Montello as SVP, Supply Chain and Client Services

Pete Dodge exits company after five years

A month after posting heavy losses, SoundCloud loses two top execs

COO Marc Strigel and Finance Director Markus Harder both exit troubled company

PPL’s neighbouring rights revenue jumped 34% to £49.1m in 2016

Weakened post-Brexit pound helps UK society post record figures

BMG brings together 400,000 production music tracks under one brand

BMG Production Music headed up by Geert-Willem Koolhof