News The A&R Awards 2019: The Finalists Revealed! Who will be up for a prize at UK-focused ceremony in November?
Analysis Entertainment Is Getting Even Shorter, And Even Longer. What About The ‘Purgatory’ In The Middle? Cherie Hu tackles changing trends in audio-visual media
News Circa Waves’ Kieran Shudall signs with Sentric Music Group Exclusive songwriting agreement includes latest LP What’s It Like Over There?
News BMG Production Music appoints new MDs in UK, Benelux Scott Doran named Managing Director BMGPM UK, Paul Gulmans appointed Managing Director Benelux & VP Int’l Business Development
Analysis After Spotify and Universal, could Tencent buy its way even further into the music business? Will $430bn-valued Tencent want a piece of Sony, Warner, BMG or Kobalt?
News SoundCloud launches fourth edition of ‘First on SoundCloud’, featuring Lil Tecca, Baby Rose, Na-kel and Ms Nina A new exclusive artist spotlight will be released every two weeks over the two-month long campaign
News Instrumental enters global artist discovery partnership with Corite, the new Stockholm-based platform that allows fans to invest in artists Corite will leverage Instrumental’s TalentAI platform to identify emerging musicians on its platform
News Spotify: ‘Owning’ discovery of music will lead to improved gross margin Paul Vogel tackles user demand, podcasts and label negotiations in Goldman Sachs interview
News Austin Daboh joins Apple Music as Head of Editorial for UK & Ireland Daboh reports to George Ergatoudis, Head of Music at Apple Music UK
News As predicted, Amazon launches $15-per-month hi-def music streaming service, Amazon Music HD “Earth will be changed forever when Amazon introduces high quality streaming to the masses," says Neil Young
News UK artists Aitch, L Devine and Easy Life join Deezer NEXT 2019 development program Program provides artists with 12 months of marketing and editorial support
News BeSixth appoints Jon Leshay as Head of Global Strategic Partnerships and Branding Former Elektra Records Senior Vice President joins newly-formed agency
News British music is losing its market power in the USA. Does BMG have the answer? "The problem for UK artists is that US-based companies naturally tend to favor their local repertoire... our view is that UK artists and songwriters deserve better than that."
Interviews How Lewis Capaldi became a billion-stream superstar – according to his manager, Ryan Walter "Musically, he’s my favourite artist of all time. I know that probably sounds lame, but it’s true."
News AEG Presents and Eden Project form new Eden Sessions joint venture Concert series has featured performances from Oasis, Elton John, Blondie, Bjork, Lionel Richie, Paul Weller and more