Music Business News: North America

In A&R, ‘gut vs. data’ isn’t a binary choice.

Instrumental founder Conrad Withey on the potent combination of man and machine (learning) in music

In Rob Stringer’s first year in charge, Sony Music revenues jumped 12% to top $4bn

Overall revenues surpassed $1bn in Q1 this year, with streaming up 40%

Downtown appoints Andrew Gould as SVP and Head of A&R, North America

In addition, Corey Roberts has been named Vice President of A&R Research

Dave Rocco joins Universal Music Group as EVP, Creative

Rocco was recently named Global Head of Artist and Label Marketing at Spotify

Nic Warner promoted to General Manager of Milk + Honey Management

Warner has worked at Milk + Honey since the company’s inception in 2014

Music Modernization Act passed by the US House of Representatives

'We are grateful that lawmakers in the House worked to update our nation’s copyright laws for the digital age'

Independents ruled global market share in 2017 – but Universal was king of streaming

What each major label - and the independent sector - claimed in market share last year

Universal Music Group inks multi-year partnership with Ghazi Shami’s Empire

San Francisco-based distribution firm has worked with Anderson .Paak, XXXTENTACION, Cardi B and Kendrick Lamar