News Universal Music Group is ‘out of contract’ with YouTube – sources Sony and Warner are set to follow suit in the coming months - ready for a summer showdown
News Warner edges out Sony and Universal in 2015’s blockbuster singles list But Universal takes half of Albums Top 10 placements
News Francis Keeling is leaving Universal Music Group British exec exits a year after former boss Rob Wells
News The biggest artist on Spotify is a shareholder in TIDAL UMG-signed artist is being listened to by almost a third of Spotify's audience
News A fifth of UK young adults use piracy sites – in Spain, it’s a third New EU stats come from EUIPO report
News Tunecore expands into Germany, single upload will cost artists €10 Album uploads will cost €29.99 in first year of registration
News Finally, after three long years, the indies are getting what’s theirs Is Beggars' Radiohead deal the first sign that divestments have started?
Analysis Pandora’s had a rough few weeks. Now it’s crunch time. Three questions Tim Westergren is going to have to tackle
Interviews Atlantic’s Ben Cook: ‘Atlantic signs characters. You’ve got to be about more than gimmicks’ Ben Cook on Ed Sheeran, Ahmet Ertegun and why 'pop robots' just won't do
News Spotify ready for streaming showdown as it raises $1bn in convertible debt Expect some big spending from Daniel Ek in the coming months
News Apple Music scores another exclusive as association with Drake pays off DVSN's debut album unavailable on Spotify
News 200m takedown requests later, BPI tells Google: this is getting silly Geoff Taylor calls for 'notice and stay down' policy from search giant
Analysis The real price of a music stream? It just keeps going down and down… Per-stream figure dropped 24% in 2015 across free and premium
News Spotify suffers another blockbuster hold-out in the Year of Windowing Gwen Stefani: 'I need to get some kind of compensation'
News It’s a big week for the Artist Services model in the UK The entire Top 4 of Saturday's Chart Update were released through model