Music Business News: Europe

Music Managers Forum seeks new CEO to replace Jon Webster

Former Virgin man helping find candidate

The biggest subscription music service in the world doesn’t need Universal, Adele or Taylor Swift

Amazon Prime Music just landed in the UK

Spain’s piracy fightback continues: music market up 11% as streaming jumps 40%

Country lost 500m euro annual income from piracy

Neil Young and The Doors back on the BBC as Wixen signs radio deal

Journey also covered by deal

Columbia, Universal, Radio 1 join MBW at UK’s Music Futures in November

Radio set to be debated by Radio 1 and New Slang Media

‘A curtailed BBC would severely damage the lifeblood of British music’

Former Sony boss and film producer on the importance of the Beeb

Russian collection societies merge – but there’s ‘internal war’

Sound recordings body VOIS rallies against merger

Samsung dumps Deezer, switches to Google Play for UK 6 month deal

Android device maker launches six-month deal with Google