NMPA Chief Legal Officer and Chief Operating Officer Danielle Aguirre said publishing outpaced the growth of recorded music for the fourth year in a row.
Bill Werde, Director of the Bandier Music Business Program at Syracuse University, argues that the freemium model championed by YouTube and Spotify may now be holding back growth in the world’s most populous music markets — and that it’s time for the industry to ask whether ‘free’ is still serving it…
Pulse Music Group's Co-CEOs take us back through a series of near-misses across the streets, studios, and open houses of Los Angeles – before their paths finally collided over a half-shared chicken parmigiana...
All backers support the Organization for Recorded Culture and Arts (ORCA), forming the round during an ORCA discussion on the future of independent music.
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Universal Music Group and its subsidiary Virgin Music Group have agreed to sell Curve Royalty Systems to Jamen Capital and Merlin. The sale is the divestment that the European Commission required as a condition of clearing Universal Music Group‘s $775 million acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings in February. It paves the way for Curve, the royalty processing platform used by thousands … Continued