News Max Lousada signs new Warner deal to become CEO, Recorded Music worldwide Ed Sheeran praises Lousada's 'amazing music brain' as Coldplay attest to his 'deep love of music'
Analysis Blog YouTube’s double standards add insult to injury for the music business YouTube is charging TV fans $35 a month, while charging music fans... nothing.
Interviews How Universal plans to become Japan’s leading ‘full-service music company’ UMJ President and CEO Naoshi Fujikura speaks exclusively to MBW
News Rehearsal platform Pirate Studios expands to ‘support the future of UK music’ Bands and DJs can hire studios from £4-per-hour across London, Liverpool, Bristol and more
News WIN launches global overview of chart reporting Study will evolve in the future and takes in various markets
News Drake breaks Ed Sheeran’s Spotify record with 76m streams in a day More Life triggers massive play-count for Canadian star
News Drake has generated more than $50m on Spotify News arrives just as artist's More Life lands as a non-Apple exclusive
News Ed Sheeran’s Divide has already generated over $5m on Spotify Lead single Shape of You tops half a billion plays in two months
Analysis Jimmy Iovine isn’t always right – but this time, he’s on the money Why weighting paid-for streams in the world's singles charts makes sense
News Horus Music launches Anara Publishing for independent artists and songwriters Distribution and services company unveils new publishing division
Interviews ‘I don’t see a YouTube value gap. Over 45% of our revenue from the platform is from UGC’ YouTube is the devil, right? Not if you speak to Believe boss Denis Ladegaillerie
Interviews News This new artist has generated over $1m from sync. But should he have had to? Barns Courtney is a huge hit in Hollywood, but his story says a lot about the challenge of breaking British artists in the UK
Interviews Savan Kotecha: ‘Music is about emotions and connecting people – not money or ego.’ Pop connoisseur Savan Kotecha opens up about songwriting, perfectionism and winning at the music business
News Ed Sheeran tops 1 billion views on YouTube with third album In the last two months, Sheeran's YouTube channel has gained over 3 million subscribers
News RCA Records signs worldwide artist deal with Stargate The duo release their debut single on Friday, March 10th