News CD Baby launches publishing admin service in the UK Willis Earl Beal and Grant Lee Phillips are clients
News Warner Music boss warns against ‘burning freemium at the stake’ Stephen Cooper appears more cautious over hurting freemium than Lucian Grainge
News Canadian Industry Awards: Bruce Allen, Universal, Dine Alone win iTunes, Spotify and E-One amongst other winners
Analysis Can Russia’s anti-piracy law revive the global music business? New copyright legislation gives industry players hope
News Google, Amazon and Pandora join forces to fight music industry over royalty rates Powerful lobbying group ready to scrap on performance rights and radio
News Americans really don’t want to pay for music in their cars 80% of US drivers listening to free music say they would not be willing to pay in future
News Jay Z accuses Tidal rivals of ‘smear campaign’ as platform hits 770k subscribers 'Our actions will speak louder than our words', says Shawn Carter
News Don’t spend it all at once, artists: Pandora is paying out $0.0001 more per stream than it was last year Service now paying out $0.0014 each time an ad-funded user streams
News Songwriters suffer from ‘nonsensical disparity’ of streaming payments… says a Grammy-winning artist 'The time for change is now', argues Ne-Yo
News Pandora loses 2m listeners and $48m in three months Total active listeners fall under 80m people
News Tidal’s popularity plummets on US and UK Apple charts App has slid over 700 places on unofficial iOS rankings since launch
Interviews After buying Tunecore, Believe Digital ready to challenge majors Denis Ladegaillerie says combined company will turn over $250m a year
News Vessel gets $57.5m in new funding to help take on YouTube IVP joins Bezos Expeditions and more to back video service