Music Business News: United Kingdom

Matt Phipps-Taylor joins peermusic as Chief Information Officer

Hiring comes as peermusic’s current Chief Information Officer Jeff Witcher retires after 18 years with the company

Want to play a small livestream concert in the UK? You’ll have to pay a licence fee for that.

PRS for Music launches a new Online Live Concert licence for live-streamed gigs with revenues under £500

‘We’re still a couple of council estate kids who haven’t achieved what we want to achieve.’

It’s been 20 years since Mark Lewis and Martin Toher formed B-Unique. The company’s since been involved in more than 100m album sales and 20bn streams...

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Hipgnosis is selling a lot more shares to raise a lot more money to buy a lot more music

Prospectus issued to the markets today shows that Hipgnosis could potentially raise over $2bn in the next 12 months

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BMG, Beggars Group and Hipgnosis each have strong opinions on streaming. Here are those opinions.

Submissions to the UK's Parlimentary inquiry into streaming are released for public consumption

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YMU Music launches JV label with Ivor Novello-winning songwriter Dan Caplen

Caplen worked on the Ivor Novello-winning single These Days with Rudimental and Macklemore

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Hipgnosis acquires catalog from Michael Bublé and Metallica producer Bob Rock

Hipgnosis has acquired 100% of Bob Rock’s producer rights for Metallica’s Metallica album and Michael Bublé’s Call Me Irresponsible, Crazy Love, Christmas and To Be Loved

Analysis

Will 2021 Herald a Golden Age of Artist Partnerships for Independent Labels?

"Independent labels have an important part to play in the current landscape," says Marathon Music Group GM, Pru Harris