News 4th Floor Creative Group President Cassandra Gracey to speak at The Great Escape 2019 Gracey is among the first 40 speakers announced for the UK conference
News Universal fully acquires Ingrooves Music Group UMG will gain sole control of the firm's approximate 2% market share in the United States
News Universal just had ‘the best year for any music company ever’ Major makes bullish claim at Los Angeles Grammy event
News She Is The Music reveals partnerships and funding to further equality initiatives SITM is a nonprofit focused on achieving equality for women across the music industry
Analysis News Spotify hit 96m paying subscribers in 2018 – and just posted its first ever operating profit Firm predicts that subscriber count will reach approximately 122m by end of 2019
News Spotify buys not one, but two podcasting companies: Gimlet Media and Anchor Gimlet deal believed to have cost Spotify circa $230m
News Amuse to pay AI-driven royalty advance money to independent artists Diego Farias's company adds important financial service to offering
News Festicket secures $4.6m funding from Edge Investments Funding will support Festicket’s entrance into new markets
News Music Modernization Act: Labels and publishers back NMPA’s bid to run new mechanical rights society Universal, Sony and Warner, as well as indies, support publisher org's application
Analysis Blog ‘Independent’ music continues to be romanticized. But what does it really mean? Matt Brinkworth of Omnian Music Group reflects on the true meaning of 'indie' in 2019
News Secretly Distribution leaves physical Warner/ADA deal to sign with AMPED Artists signed to Secretly Distribution labels include Sharon Van Etten, Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Angel Olsen and Tycho
Analysis English-language music is losing its stranglehold on global pop charts – and YouTube is driving the change When YouTube’s charts say what's popular, you better believe it. And, right now, "what's popular" applies increasingly less to U.S. pop stars.
News PledgeMusic in discussions with ‘several interested parties’ over acquisition or partnership "These conversations, if successful, would lead to a transaction which would allow us to meet all of our outstanding obligations."
News Sony Music streaming revenues topped $2bn in 2018, as total sales hit $3.9bn Sony's overall annual recorded music revenues in 2018 grew by 1.7%
News Why is SiriusXM buying Pandora in a $3.5bn deal – and what’s it going to do with a music streaming platform? The biggest deal of 2019 so far should close by the end of this week