News iHeartMedia furloughs employees; CEO Bob Pittman gives up $1.5m salary for remainder of 2020 Pittman earns base salary of $1.5m a year, SEC filings show
News Management firm ie:music launches ie:ventures, music-making app Endlesss is first flagship investment Endlesss is a live collaborative music-making app and social network founded by Tim Exile
Interviews Denzyl Feigelson: ‘Once you help an artist build a robust business, a lot starts to happen for them.’ Platoon has worked with the likes of Mr Eazi, Rex Orange Country and Billie Eilish. Now, with new owner Apple, it's working with a fresh and exciting crop of artists
News How to market your music during Coronavirus lockdown – according to one of the world’s biggest record companies Download Believe's Creative Marketing Playbook right here
Analysis News Kobalt forecasts profitability next year, after firm’s gross collections in FY2019 hit $616m "In our forecasts we see that by end of June 2021, we will be group profitable," says founder Willard Ahdritz
News Lyor Cohen: ‘Artists around the world are finding unique ways to shine light during this dark time.’ YouTube's Global Head of Music Lyor Cohen uses his monthly newsletter to address the Covid-19 crisis.
News Merck Mercuriadis’ Hipgnosis Songs Fund acquires music catalog from Bon Jovi’s Richie Sambora Company has acquired 100% of Sambora's publishing and writer’s share royalties in his catalog, which comprises 186 songs
News Reservoir signs Joyner Lucas to worldwide publishing deal Deal includes global rights to Lucas’ entire catalog of works including upcoming album, ADHD
News Amy Thomson, who managed Swedish House Mafia and marketed Kanye West, reveals the most important things she knows about artist management and marketing Thomson also teases new platform which, she says, recovered $4m in royalties for an artist's catalog
News TikTok donates $10m to World Health Organization to fight COVID-19 Donation has been given to WHO's Solidarity Response Fund
News Amazon ‘still very much business as usual’ for record labels in the UK, says distributor Proper Music "I think music finds itself further up the pecking order than maybe people thought it would."
News Raine Group forecasts that independent artist sector will earn over $2bn this year Merchant bank says 'DIY' artist income, specifically, will jump by 27% to $1.22 billion in 2020
News Apple inks new deals with Universal, Sony and Warner for music streaming Deal does not include license for Apple Music and TV bundle
News Former SYCO A&R Russell Hunt to head up Tigerspring’s UK expansion; first signings announced Company was founded in 2007 by Christian Møller and Søren Winding
Interviews ‘The guy who signed me sent an email that basically said, You will never make it in America and you’re going to come home crying.’ Toby Gad, writer of smashes for Beyoncé and John Legend, on why songwriters shouldn't "try to be famous"