Music Business News: North America
News Hartwig Masuch told MBW last month that BMG was "very serious" about its recordings business Analysis News The biggest songs in the world are now far more popular on audio services News Katz moves up after becoming US publishing boss just four months ago News Data is broadly in line with BuzzAngle stats from earlier this week News Exec will report into David Orleans at independent services division News Google, Pandora, Twitter all help bankroll lobbying group fighting the music biz News UMPG and Warner/Chappell respond to DoJ decision News Around 130m fewer downloads were bought in H1 2016 than the same period last year