Music Business News: North America

Warner is first major to license streaming video platform Vadio

Vadio provides a music video platform to streaming audio services

Apple Music buys rights to Carpool Karaoke spin-off exclusive

Late Late Show segment has featured Adele, Justin Bieber and Michelle Obama

MTV co-founder John Sykes steps down from Shazam board after 5 years

Second major departure from board this year after Brent Hoberman

Sirius XM subscribers hit 30.6m as it adds 2.2m users in a year

587,000 net new subscribers added quarter-on-quarter

Warner artists set to appear on Vevo – but not on its YouTube platform

Sources say major has not taken any equity in platform

Randy Phillips to be named CEO of SFX Entertainment, say sources

Exec left Global Entertainment in September after just seven months

This Kobalt-managed fund has spent $200m on music rights in 5 years

Kobalt Music Copyrights is doing big business in the music industry... but why?

Beatport ‘dramatically improves profitability’… by dropping streaming

SFX reverts to download-only storefront, starts making money again