News Marshmello manager Moe Shalizi exits Red Light to launch own firm, The Shalizi Group The Shalizi Group represents DJ Marshmello, Jauz, Southside of 808 Mafia
News The global recorded music business is on course to top $20bn in annual revenues in 2019 – but it can’t over-rely on the USA Mark Mulligan says that global sales hit $18.9bn this year
Analysis Blog Is online ticket touting almost over? FanFair Alliance Campaign Manager Adam Webb rounds up the changes to secondary ticketing in 2018
News TIDAL launches personalized playlists The new My Mix feature combines listening data and input from human-curated playlists
News Universal Music Publishing Group signs HRVY to global deal His single Personal has racked up over 180m YouTube views
News Martin Bandier says he’s leaving Sony/ATV in ‘the greatest shape possible’ in final year-end memo to staff Bandier sent a wide-ranging final note to staff ahead of his departure in March 2019
News Latest version of Article 13 will fail to fix YouTube ‘Value Gap’, warns Vivendi and the record industry Vivendi, IFPI and IMPALA all sign exasperated open letter regarding European Copyright Directive
News Justin Tranter and A&R exec Katie Vinten launch Facet Records in partnership with Warner Bros. Vinten will also serve as A&R consultant to Warner Bros. and Warner/Chappell Music
News Sony Music launches its own streaming service in Japan The new service is called Mora Qualitas and will be powered by Rhapsody's Napster platform
News Blockchain firm JAAK makes key hires ahead of first product launch in 2019 YouTube Content ID creator David King and artist D.A.Wallach join JAAK as Advisors
News Apple could be about to launch an ‘Apple Music for Business’ service Apple has filed a US trademark for 'Apple Music for Business'
News Deezer partners with Triton Digital ‘to deliver more value’ for advertisers Deezer has launched mobile programmatic audio advertising through the partnership
Analysis United Airlines and the myth of ‘ad-free’ in paid music streaming Cherie Hu on how lines are becoming blurred over what constitutes an 'ad' on Spotify et al
News ONErpm expands publishing operation worldwide The company's publishing administration and sync services were previously available in Brazil only
Analysis News Apple Music reportedly tops 56m subscribers, up 6m in the past six months Number of Apple Music subscribers has grown to 56m, up from 50m in May, reports FT