Analysis News Streaming price war breaks out as Google offers 4 free months of Play Amazon's entry into the market appears to have kicked off Black Friday battle
News SoundExchange paid out $264m in Q3 – its biggest quarter in two years CMO is on course to pay out around $900m to rights-holders this year
News BBC Radio 1 ditches In New Music We Trust playlist Will bigger C-list and new Specialist Chart make up for the loss?
News Here are BBC Radio 1’s most-played artists this year. Are there enough UK acts? Drake, The 1975, Shawn Mendes and Coldplay lead BBC station's playlist
News Only two debut albums went Gold in the US in the first half of 2016. Guess who? Kevin Gates and Charlie Puth seal achievement - and are both signed to Mike Caren's label
News Warner Music Group acquires Swedish playlisting firm X5 Music Company specialises in digital compilation creation
News YouTube Red (and Google Play Music) goes cheap with sub-$1 deal Meanwhile, Spotify reveals new $9.99 for three months deal
News Spotify’s own playlists are paying out $1m a day to the music business A billion streams a week taking place on the likes of Today's Top Hits
News Spotify launches new playlists to break songs across genres Fresh Finds cover range of genres for listeners
News Rob Stringer’s Columbia makes two key A&R promotions Imran Majid and Justin Eshak step up following Ashley Newton departure
News YouTube thinks Adele will win two BRIT Awards next week Video views and streaming data predict BRITs winners
News Warner’s Playlists.net launches ‘Playlist A Day’ app for Spotify users 'No algorithms here - just curators who know good music'
News 1,500 YouTube plays now officially counts as an ‘album’ in the US Ratio for single downloads lengthened from 100-1 to 150-1
News FUGA hires ex-Discovery Networks and eBay execs 'This is a time of opportunity, growth and continued change for FUGA'