Music Business News: North America

Blackbird Music Publishing appoints Suzanne Moss as Vice President, Head of Creative Licensing

Exec was previously Vice President of Creative for Film/TV ads at Universal Music Publishing

UMPG signs Robbie Williams to global administration deal

The British superstar is one of the UK’s best-selling artists of all time

Vevo unveils its Artists To Watch for 2020

Vevo’s Artists To Watch in previous years include Billie Ellish, Alessia Cara, Little Simz, SlowThai and Lewis Capaldi

Pandora’s user base is now nearly one quarter of the size of Spotify’s, having lost 1.8m listeners in three months

Service ended Q3 with nearly 6.3m 'self-pay' subscribers

DICE hires Mike Rogers as General Manager of Partners for North America

He was previously Partnerships Manager at Eventbrite

Molly Neuman named President of Songtrust

'Molly’s leadership has been an essential element in Songtrust’s tremendous growth over the past two years.'

Melinda Caffin appointed COO at Fat Possum Records

Exec previously served as CFO of Red Bull Records

These 33 senior Spotify execs have left the company in the last 3 years.

Spotify has gotten pretty good at keeping the ‘churn’ rate of its paying subscribers down. The same can’t really be said about its own senior executive team. On Monday (October 28), Spotify announced its Q3 financial results, while confirming that CFO Barry McCarthy – the second most powerful exec at the company – will be … Continued