Music Business News: Global
Interviews ABBA songwriter Björn Ulvaeus discusses his songwriting craft, creative partnership with Benny Andersson, and offers his perspective on the modern music scene. News Check out an exclusive extract from Sound Advice — a new health-focused career guide for musicians and those that work with them News New markets include Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and Pakistan Analysis News The global recorded music industry generated $20.2bn in wholesale revenues – that’s the money making its way back to labels and artists – in 2019. This figure was up 8.2% on the prior year ($18.7bn), according to official industry data revealed in the latest IFPI Global Music Report today (May 4). Bright spots for record … Continued News First in our new series will be an in-depth interview with Nile Rodgers himself News And MBW's sources suggest that Apple's global subscriber numbers continued to grow month-on-month in March News Global trade body taking internal action following sexual harassment claims Analysis How the record business's new-age economics are really starting to show