News MCPR celebrates ten years in business with raft of promotions Founder Murray Chalmers will now assume a Chairman role
News Spotify: ‘We’re the R&D department for the entire music industry.’ Spotify's Chief Product Officer, Gustav Söderström, on the contribution of the service to the global business
News J Cole breaks both Apple Music and Spotify’s day one stream record in the US… with some surprising numbers Spotify obtains 36.7m US streams from KOD on day one. Apple Music gets 64.5m.
Interviews ‘We will pay significant sums for the right deals – but we do best with artists who want their legacies properly valued.’ Primary Wave's Larry Mestel on the evolution of his company - and its $400m+ spending power
News Facebook signs music licensing deals with Merlin, Beggars Group, [PIAS] and Ingrooves Agreements follow similar deals with Universal and Warner
Blog ‘Everyone who comes into the venue should feel like they’ve had the time of their lives’ Bradley Thompson, MD of Broadwick Venues, on Printworks and more
Interviews Who is Sat Bisla? The MUSEXPO founder explains his journey through the music business - and his philosophy on life
Analysis If Universal’s going to go public, Vivendi should strike while the iron’s hot Why now might be the right time for the French media giant to make its move
News Secretly Group restructures marketing department with new hires Independent label hires Robby Morris from Matador and promotes Hannah Carlen
News Spotify acquires mechanical licensing tech platform Loudr Loudr specializes in automatically identifying composer data
Interviews ‘Artists are telling other artists about us.’ How Platoon is discovering huge breaking artists - and mystifying the major labels
News Capitol Music Group launches Innovation Center in Hollywood Collaborative workspace and songwriting studio to host events and workshops
Analysis Can Apple Music and Amazon catch Spotify’s subscriber base by the end of 2018? Apple is currently growing its subscriber base at around double the rate of Spotify's
News BMG acquires Asia-Pacific production music firm Big Bang & Fuzz BBF focuses on sub-publishing international catalogues
Analysis How much will artists get paid from the major labels’ Spotify profits? Sony Corp just gave us a precious hint into the amount of money about to hit the artist community