News Apple Music poaches the BBC’s leading hip-hop radio DJ, Charlie Sloth Sloth joins George Ergatoudis, Ryan Newman, Zane Lowe and other ex-Radio 1 tastemakers at Apple
News W Hotels launches its own record label, first single released by Amber Mark Marriott International’s W Hotels brand has launched a record label
Analysis Tencent Music uses ‘tipping’ to rack up revenues. Why aren’t Western music streaming platforms doing the same? Cherie Hu on what the likes of Spotify can learn from China's biggest streaming music company
News Warner and Sony buy $200m of shares in Tencent Music Entertainment ahead of streaming company’s US IPO The two companies have banked more than $1bn from Spotify shares - what will TME bring their way?
News Tencent Music files for IPO in the United States, posts gross profit of $526m in H1 2018 F-1 filing hits SEC in the US, revealing latest financial stats for Chinese company
News Apple Music and Ministry Of Sound strike deal to push MoS playlists worldwide AM will be the only place the public will be able to find MoS playlist brands
Analysis Apple’s buyout of Shazam: 5 reasons it could change music streaming forever How the world's leading voice-recognition app could shake up the streaming game
News Donald Trump’s signature is now all that stands in the way of the Music Modernization Act being passed Senate unanimously votes in favor of draft bill
Analysis Could SiriusXM’s buyout of Pandora finally deliver the first true ‘full-stack’ music company? Pandora is back in the game of music streaming - and can dare to dream big
News Songtrust expands into Atlanta, Los Angeles and Nashville with new hires Alex Gershwin, Breanna Harper and Carli Gonderinger join team
News Apple completes $400m Shazam buyout, bins advertising on app Free users to access ad-free version
Analysis This is how we should be measuring global streaming subscribers Glenn Peoples on the fast-growing music subscription base - and where it goes next
News Arista Records hires Brian Vinikoor, Dee Heuvelings and Ethan Geltzer Trio will report to David Massey in New York City
Interviews ‘Record labels are like Donald Trump… scared artists are making dumb albums, singing stupid songs.’ Next year, Linda Perry says she'll revolutionize the music business. Today, she'll settle for tearing it a new one.
News Tidal expands into Brazil via Vivo partnership – with subs costing less than $4 a month Nicki Minaj to play launch gig