Interviews Merck Mercuriadis wants to raise a billion dollars. And then he wants to change the face of the music business. The veteran manager tells MBW why hes raising such vast sums of money to buy copyrights
News Is Instagram about to become the music industry’s new best friend? The Facebook-owned social media platform has transformed itself - and artists are noticing
News Hi-def streaming service Qobuz hired Dan Mackta as MD in the USA David Soloman and Ted Cohen also join firm's US-based company
News High Time Records signs 5-year global deal with Warner’s ADA Carl Hitchborn's team eyes Australia and Los Angeles expansion
Analysis News Music streams in the US grew by over 118bn in the first half of 2018 – the biggest jump in history Total audio streams grew year-on-year by more than 80bn in six months to end of June
Interviews Can Kobalt’s AWAL rewrite the rules of A&R? Willard Ahdritz’s latest venture is trying to reduce the risk of music industry artist development. He might just be on to something...
News It’s official: Tencent Music Entertainment is about to float on the stock exchange in the US TME is set to float on "a recognized stock exchange in the United States", confirms Tencent
News Tencent Music Entertainment to file for $30bn US IPO this week – report New York Stock Exchange application expected this Friday
Analysis Did record labels already lose the fight to ‘window’ album releases? Why Jay Z and Beyoncé's latest move didn't make industry ripples like it once might have
News Now Drake’s Scorpion shatters Apple Music record – with over 170m streams on day one That's nearly double the play-count of Apple's previous record-holder
News Drake goes wide on streaming with new, 25-track album, Scorpion One of the world's most popular artists is back in a big way
News Merck Mercuriadis fund successfully raises $260m+ to buy music copyrights Mercuriadis is already in discussions to buy eight catalogues
News Apple is launching a subscription bundle including music, TV and news – report Is the future of subscriptions in multimedia?
News How Five Seconds Of Summer refused to alter their sound for streaming playlists… and made history Capitol Records' Nick Raphael on why 5SOS 'stuck to their guns' in the studio
Interviews ‘This is probably the most exciting time I can remember in the music business.’ Matt Pincus, SONGS Music Publishing founder, on the music business - and its future