Music Business News: North America

UTA makes string of promotions in Los Angeles, New York and London

Nine agents and five executives have been promoted

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