News Launching first stage of extensive review, Universal identifies just 22 ‘original masters’ lost in 2008 fire "Our current priority is to communicate directly with our artists and their representatives."
Interviews BeatStars: ‘Money doesn’t drive us. Our community drives us.’ Company founder Abe Batshon on Lil Nas X and how thousands of producers are making a living from his platform
News LANDR closes $26m Series B funding round The round was led by the likes of Sony Innovation Fund, microphone manufacturer Shure and others
News Aus management & touring firm Astral People partners with [PIAS] to launch Astral People Recordings First signing is producer and multi-instrumentalist, Wave Racer
News Hipgnosis Songs Fund backs A&R Awards with sponsorship of key category Merck Mercuriadis firm sponsors Song Of The Year gong
News Has Spotify given up on its emerging artist program, RISE? As Apple commits to Up Next, we haven't seen a hint of an update to Spotify's rival in nine long months
Interviews ‘This is the most exciting time the music business has ever known.’ Mark Gillespie, founder of Three Six Zero, on his career, Calvin Harris and the industry's future
News Big Machine Label Group Records ups Jimmy Harnen to President & CEO Harnen joined the company 10 years ago
News AEG Presents promotes Jim King to CEO of new European Festivals division King has worked at AEG Presents for over a decade
Interviews Show4me: ‘We want to bring back the value of music as an artform.’ Show4me founder and CEO, Karen Chiftalaryan, discusses the platform and its unique attributes
Interviews ‘I marry business to my passion for music – not the other way round.’ Peter Edge runs RCA Records at Sony in New York. At heart, he says, he’s still the fastidious A&R setting a high bar for the artists his company signs...
Analysis Blog My Manifesto: Island Records’ Alex Boateng A five-point plan for change from Island Records’ UK President of Urban, Alex Boateng...
Interviews Jody Gerson: ‘I have to tell my story authentically’ Jody Gerson has transformed Universal Music Publishing Group. But who is the woman behind the billion-dollar publisher?
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Analysis Blog Why does the music industry still judge itself in weekly intervals? Are charts which appear every seven days really cut out for the modern era?