Music Business News: Europe

Atlantic’s Ben Cook: ‘Atlantic signs characters. You’ve got to be about more than gimmicks’

Ben Cook on Ed Sheeran, Ahmet Ertegun and why 'pop robots' just won't do

BPI lambasts Google for dismissing ‘notice and stay down’ request

Geoff Taylor: 'It's become clear that stronger Government action will be needed.'

Spotify ready for streaming showdown as it raises $1bn in convertible debt

Expect some big spending from Daniel Ek in the coming months

SoundCloud launches subscription service ‘Go’ in the US market

SoundCloud Go makes platform a real rival to the likes of Spotify and Apple Music

The indie label services market is shrinking – and that’s a problem

Absolute's Mark Dowling surveys the landscape in the wake of Sony's Essential buy

France set to introduce streaming data into albums and singles chart

No word yet on formula, but it's coming

200m takedown requests later, BPI tells Google: this is getting silly

Geoff Taylor calls for 'notice and stay down' policy from search giant

Universal tries to break artist via multi-million pound ad campaign

Norma Jean Martine is at centre of McArthurGlen campaign