News Lil Nas X rejected a $1 million-plus deal with Amuse before signing to Columbia Records 'My challenge would be: excuse me, what did Columbia actually do in this? He was doing millions of streams per day before they picked him up.'
News Richard Griffiths and Harry Magee to receive Music Industry Trusts Award 2019 Award will be presented on November 4 at a ceremony held in aid of the BRIT Trust and Nordoff Robbins
News Austin Daboh quits Spotify – is he headed to Apple? Popular London-based exec joined Spotify from BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra in 2016
Interviews ‘Songwriters and publishers should never be an afterthought for digital services.’ Apple Music's global publishing head, Elena Segal, on the industry, those CRB appeals, and her career to date
News Spanish collection society SGAE, plagued by corruption claims, kicked out of global PRO body CISAC 'The Wheel' finally catches up with SGAE
News Adele and Mumford & Sons agent Lucy Dickins leaves ITB to join WME Respected exec leaves ITB, which was co-founded by her father Barry, after more than 20 years
News SoundCloud launches latest DJ software integration with Mixvibes Integration follows launches with Pioneer DJ, Serato, Virtual DJ and DEX 3.
News Sofar Sounds raises $25m to help ‘scale the artist-fan connection globally’ Raise is being led by Battery Ventures and Union Square Ventures
News ‘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
News TikTok owner to launch Spotify rival – report App could launch as soon as fall 2019 "in a number of territories"
News Warner Chappell Music inks global deal with Australia’s Eddie Perfect Eddie Perfect is one of Australia’s most prolific writer/composer/performers
News NME and Uncut acquired by Singapore’s BandLab Technologies 'We are very excited to welcome NME and Uncut to the BandLab Technologies family.'
News J. Balvin manager Rebeca León and Neil Young & The Strokes agent Marsha Vlasic added to Midem Keynote lineup Midem takes place from June 4-7 June in Cannes, France
Analysis Instagram’s new e-commerce features could transform music marketing – but only if the record industry is willing to change Should record labels start approaching Instagram differently?