Music Business News: North America

Pete Tong named President of Three Six Zero Recordings

Tong was one of the earliest supporters of TSZ management client, Calvin Harris

Apple Music now has over 60m subscribers worldwide

Rival Spotify topped 100m global subscribers at the end of Q1 this year

Hip-hop and R&B loses market share of US streams – but so does Rock, Pop and Latin

Genre still dominates streaming – but with less market share than in H1 2018

Audio streaming growth fell by 5% in the United States in the first half of 2019

Lil Nas X was the biggest track in H1 2019 – but he couldnt prevent a slight slowdown in the numbers

‘We have to understand: without the song, there is no artist.’

Rodney Jerkins, aka Darkchild, joins MBW's World's Greatest Songwriters series

Spotify Global Head of Advertising Brian Benedik to exit company

Brian Benedik will step down in September after six years with the music streaming service

Ethiopia Habtemariam: ‘The music business is changing all the time. If you’re not willing to innovate, you’re gonna be left in the dust.’

Motown's Ethiopia Habtemariam on hip-hop's explosion, ego in the music business – and Motown's new age

Wendy Goldstein promoted to President, West Coast Creative at Republic Records

Goldstein was previously Executive Vice President