Music Business News: United States

‘My challenge to myself is: make sure you’re writing with people who make you better.’

World's Greatest Songwriters: Tayla Parx

Marc Byers named General Manager of Motown Records

Byers most recently served as the Founder and Co-CEO of Rockstar Entertainment

Artist finance firm Sound Royalties expands into Nashville

The new Nashville office joins its other locations in South Florida and Los Angeles

Various Artists Management sells minority stake to US investor John McEvoy

Firm represents La Roux, The Libertines, Tom Grennan, YONAKA, Barns Courtney, Spiritualized, Reverend & The Makers and Zuzu

Universal Music makes changes to Global Classics And Jazz Division’s executive management team

Holly Adams promoted to Head of Soundtrack and Score, Global Classics and Jazz and Globe UK

SoundCloud revenues grew 80% to top $100m in 2017, as losses narrowed 27%

Subscription revenues nearly doubled in the year, up to $82m

Create Music Group now shows daily YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music revenues to its artists

Company claims "artists have never seen this before from any distributor"

The four types of music subscription models in 2019

What music fans are spending money on every month – and how it's going to evolve