News Why Exclusives Are Terrible for Fans, Artists, and the Streaming Music Business Dj Skee weighs in on one of the biggest topics around in digital music
News Sony’s $750m buyout of Sony/ATV has been cleared in Europe Game-changing acquisition looks to be a done deal
News Napalm Records opens UK office headed up by Wally van Middendorp Exec has history at Eleven Seven Music Group Europe and Roadrunner Records
Interviews ‘Streaming has not broken the chart. The key is more long-term A&R.’ Do labels need to change their strategy in the streaming world?
News Warner is first major to license streaming video platform Vadio Vadio provides a music video platform to streaming audio services
News Warner artists set to appear on Vevo – but not on its YouTube platform Sources say major has not taken any equity in platform
News SOCAN moves into mechanical rights collection by acquiring Audiam Jeff Price's New York business snapped up by Canadian society
News Len Blavatnik: ‘I want to be in the music biz for a very long time’ Rarely quoted Warner owner marks five years of Access's involvement with WMG
News YouTube tests Donald Trump supporters with provocative new Music ads Google company launches ads on day one of the Republican National Convention
News This deal will change everything for the music business in Russia Universal signs an $8m advance with VK parent Mail.ru
News BMG is the biggest artist albums label in the UK this week Thanks to albums from Blink 182, Rick Astley and Gilbert O'Sullivan
Blog News Google’s ‘How To Fight Piracy’: An alternative version 'Google persistently directs fans to illegal sites in preference to those legitimate services'
News ‘YouTube’s Content ID fails to spot 20%-40% of music recordings’ Google says Content ID has generated $2bn for various rights-holders so far
Analysis Is BBC Radio 1 doing enough to support new British artists? Station's four most-played tracks this year have come from outside the UK
Interviews A discreet revolution: How Fintage House helped the music business grow up How a company that started in a bank became big news