News BMG Production Music appoints new MDs in UK, Benelux Scott Doran named Managing Director BMGPM UK, Paul Gulmans appointed Managing Director Benelux & VP Int’l Business Development
News Instrumental enters global artist discovery partnership with Corite, the new Stockholm-based platform that allows fans to invest in artists Corite will leverage Instrumental’s TalentAI platform to identify emerging musicians on its platform
News Mechanical Licensing Collective proposes start-up assessment of $37.25m ahead of 2021 launch The law mandates that the 'startup assessment' will be wholly paid by the digital services
News Spotify: ‘Owning’ discovery of music will lead to improved gross margin Paul Vogel tackles user demand, podcasts and label negotiations in Goldman Sachs interview
News Austin Daboh joins Apple Music as Head of Editorial for UK & Ireland Daboh reports to George Ergatoudis, Head of Music at Apple Music UK
News Universal launches Def Jam South East Asia and Astralwerks Asia UMG also announces arrival of Ingrooves & Spinnup for the region
News UK artists Aitch, L Devine and Easy Life join Deezer NEXT 2019 development program Program provides artists with 12 months of marketing and editorial support
Interviews How Lewis Capaldi became a billion-stream superstar – according to his manager, Ryan Walter "Musically, he’s my favourite artist of all time. I know that probably sounds lame, but it’s true."
News Warner buys into blockchain: Major music company joins $11m investment in Ethereum rival ‘Flow’ Applications Flow will support include artists or bands using crypto tokens for fans to buy digital merchandise
News Vevo celebrates 10-year anniversary, reports 300% growth in daily views over past 5 years Vevo's current daily viewing patterns average over 800 million views
News Spotify is now a music-making marketplace, as it buys New York-based SoundBetter Daniel Ek's "two-sided marketplace" is becoming a reality
News Jammber acquires TuneRegistry to expand music rights and royalty administration capabilities TuneRegistry co-founder and CEO Dae Bogan joins Jammber as its Senior Vice President of Global Music Rights
Analysis News Apple wanted to improve songwriter pay to $0.00091 per stream. Spotify and Google weren’t keen. Historical filings show why Spotify believes "lower royalty rates are critical" to the service's future
News Confirmed: Alibaba buys stake in NetEase Cloud Music in $700m deal in a separate deal, Alibaba has also acquired NetEase's import e-commerce platform Kaola for approximately $2 billion
News Vevo lands on tens of millions of new devices as firm expands smart TV strategy with Vewd New agreement comes after success on Amazon Fire TV earlier this year