Music Business News: United States

Sofar Sounds raises $25m to help ‘scale the artist-fan connection globally’

Raise is being led by Battery Ventures and Union Square Ventures

‘Creativity is a muscle. It must be worked out. It must be pushed.’

Geffen boss Neil Jacobson on A&R, talking fast, the death of the album and much more

Universal Music Publishing Group signs Logic to exclusive administration deal

Logic has amassed billions of streams and sold over five million albums

Beatport integrates LINK subscription service with Denon DJ hardware

Integration to be available before the end of 2019

Laurie Zeleny joins Vevo as SVP of People

Exec is responsible for Vevo’s global people strategy

Sony/ATV inks global content deal with music app developer Gismart

The Gismart product portfolio has 17 million monthly active users

Pro Music Rights inks deal with Billboard-charting act OG Maco

'The industry should take note that artists will no longer have to stand idle while their royalties are tied up in an opaque, antiquated system.'

After Spotify’s launch in India, how is its global expansion progressing?

An in-depth look at how Spotify performed in Q1 in terms of users and subscribers around the world