News Merlin signs multi-year direct licensing deal with Mixcloud The deal follows recent agreements with Universal and Warner
News eMusic token sale for blockchain-based platform opens to public Funds from the token sale will be used for development of the eMusic Blockchain project
Interviews UROK’s Roy and Sam Eldridge on Liam Gallagher, Plan B, Jess Glynne… and each other Father and son team Roy and Sam Eldridge discuss artist development and the state of the record industry
News Record industry attacks YouTube for ‘carpet-bombing propaganda’ over Article 13 Labels respond to latest Lyor Cohen op/ed, which claims artists will be paid less after Article 13
News iHeartMedia to acquire audio advertising trade platform Jelli Jelli is programmatic platform for buying and selling audio advertising
News Combs Enterprises President Dia Simms to speak at MIDEM 2019 The respected executive heads up sean 'Diddy' Combs' global organisation
News NetEase Cloud Music completes $600m raise to take on Tencent Baidu, General Atlantic, Boyu Capital and others plough money into Tencent Music rival
News Pandora rolls out new podcast recommendation technology in beta The platform's podcast's are powered by the Podcast Genome Project
Interviews ‘It’s always in your best interest to bank a lot of karma chips in the music industry’ Big Deal founder Kenny MacPherson on success – and the opposite of success
News Was this the biggest mistake in the history of the music business? Rockstar Games is making billions in video games. It's not making them for the music industry.
News Global music collections rise 6% to €8.34bn, digital royalties top €1bn The figures were published in CISAC's 2018 Global Collections Report
News Spotify: We don’t expect major labels to ‘hand us an additional pile of gross margin’ CFO Barry McCarthy speaks frankly on subject of re-negotiations with the labels
News Lyor Cohen warns music industry over ‘unintended consequences’ of Article 13 YouTube’s Global Head of Music slams Article 13 in a monthly newsletter to industry execs
Analysis What’s the value of a song when Artificial Intelligence is everywhere? 'AI is merely forcing us to reckon even more explicitly with the tension between originality and value, collaboration and consumption.'
News Because live arm Corida buys 50% stake in Pitchfork Paris promoter Super! Super! will continue to operate independently