Music Business News: Europe

Classical music sector’s lack of diversity laid bare by new report

New research reveals major issues in the commissioning of works by female and BAME classical music composers

How can the music industry tackle its diversity issues?

Kieron Faller from CI reveals best-practice for diverse businesses

The Orchard hires Lucy Blair and Nikoo Sadr in the UK

Duo join Sony-owned company's European HQ in London

Spotify revenues topped $2bn last year as losses hit $194m

Payouts to the music business grew 85% to $1.8bn

Streaming now represents 27% of album ‘sales’ in the UK market

And streaming now counts for two-thirds of all singles 'sales'

David Joseph, Geoff Travis and music biz figures urge UK to stay in Europe

Sandie Shaw, Jonathan Shalit and Paloma Faith back Remain campaign

YouTube is paying less than £0.0009 per stream to UK record labels

MBW calculates per-stream rates from new BPI data - and it's not joyous reading

Pot plants, pond life and Shaun Ryder’s nine-incher: The best quotes from the Ivor Novellos 2016

Damon Albarn, Jim Kerr, Alan McGee and others deliver the goods