Blog The indie label services market is shrinking – and that’s a problem Absolute's Mark Dowling surveys the landscape in the wake of Sony's Essential buy
News Dubset isn’t licensed by the majors or Merlin… but says it’s working on it CEO Stephen White explains the platform's position
News 200m takedown requests later, BPI tells Google: this is getting silly Geoff Taylor calls for 'notice and stay down' policy from search giant
Analysis The real price of a music stream? It just keeps going down and down… Per-stream figure dropped 24% in 2015 across free and premium
Analysis Streaming trumps CD and download income as US music market grows 0.9% Ad-funded makes up just 16% of total streaming tally
News Universal tries to break artist via multi-million pound ad campaign Norma Jean Martine is at centre of McArthurGlen campaign
News Oh good. Here comes another YouTube ripping platform MP3Cola adds its name to a growing problem for the music business
News Universal launches free music streaming service with watchmaker Raymond Weil deal is UMG's latest white label streaming platform project
Analysis Sony deal done, here’s how SoundCloud can survive a brutal streaming market A seven-point survival plan for the challenged Berlin-based service
News Apple Music steals SoundCloud’s thunder with landmark remixes deal Dubset deal will enable 'thousands of hours' of unofficial remixes to join service's catalogue
News Sony’s historic buyout of Sony/ATV: 5 things you need to know Sony is now edging towards becoming a $5bn music company
Blog 9 things for artists to check after getting a streaming royalty statement The MMF's Annabella Coldrick on what to look out for from Spotify et al
News Absolute Label Services signs deal with Ladyhawke’s Mid Century Records Synth pop artist is managed by ie: music
News Loss-making Omnifone switches business strategy, replaces Chairman UK-based company posted a £6.9m loss in 2014
News Ad-funded streaming revenues declined in France last year Both video and audio ad-funded models paid out less to labels