Interviews Why Anghami, with over 1m paying users, doesn’t feel threatened by Spotify in the Middle East Elie Habib, Co-Founder of Anghami, on why the Lebanon-based music streaming company is the leading service in MENA
News Keith Flint of The Prodigy dies aged 49 Flint sang on the No.1 hit singles Firestarter and Breathe
News Live Nation sees eighth consecutive year of record growth in 2018 Company posted revenue of $10.8 billion, up 11% on 2017
News Liberty Media: We’re still interested in buying a stake in Universal – but we’d probably prefer to control it "Would we prefer a path to control? Usually in life we do..."
News Has Spotify’s Warner bust-up spooked Wall Street? Spotify's market cap has fallen by around $2bn since the start of this week
News BMI and ASCAP issue open letter on Consent Decree reform The DOJ is reportedly planning to review the music-licensing rules that have been in place since 1941
News CD Baby expands into Asia Pacific, makes key hires in Colombia, Canada and UK CD Baby has new hires in Latin America, the UK and EU and Canada
News FutureKind hires Ben Patterson as Head of Marketing He joins the company from Virgin EMI Records
News Spotify is getting into sports with new podcasting drive The successful candidate expected to help establish "Spotify’s presence and voice in the [sports] category".
News SoundCloud is now a distributor: Platform launches tool for users to upload music to Spotify, Apple Music etc. Amazon Music, Apple Music, Instagram, Spotify, Tencent, YouTube Music and more all covered by new tool
News Spotify paid $343m for podcasting companies Gimlet Media and Anchor SEC filing reveals that Spotify spent €300m on the pair of companies
Analysis 5 of Spotify’s biggest imminent challenges in 2019 The key issues Daniel Ek and his team have to face down over the next 10 months
News Copyright Directive talks conclude – music business responds ahead of reviewing final Article 13 text "We look forward to carefully reviewing the text when it is issued," says IFPI
News Beatport & DJcity team up on joint venture music service Beatsource Beatsource will provide a catalog of curated music for open format DJs
News ie:music hires Leander Gloversmith, signs pop-punk stars Neck Deep Based in London, Gloversmith will also operate from ie:music’s LA HQ