News Having spent $665m on songs, Hipgnosis now owns slices of Shape Of You and Uptown Funk Fund says that it now co-owns over 11,000 songs
News Taylor Swift is blocking sync uses of her masters now they’re owned by Scooter Braun Superstar's re-record strategy becomes clear...
News Reservoir signs Sam Sumser, co-writer of Lizzo’s Juice Nashville-based writer joins fast-growing rights company
News Def Leppard sign global administration deal with Sony/ATV Band has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide
News Universal Music hires BBC exec Alice Webb as CEO of Eagle Rock Entertainment Exec was previously Director of the BBC's Children’s and Education department
News Merlin inks licensing deal in Africa with Boomplay, which now has 62m users Partnership follows licensing deals with Sony, Warner and Universal
News Sentric Music launches fund for emerging artists The Sentric Academy Fund will support 12 artists per year
News Warner launches $650m fund to do battle with music’s big spenders Most of the equity in Tempo fund comes from Providence Equity Partners
News 88Rising inks exclusive global deal with Kobalt Deal expands relationship with Asian music and culture company
Analysis More and more corporate brands are starting their own record labels (again). Will they last? Are brand-led labels a threat or an opportunity for music's incumbent powers?
News Max Richter signs new global deal with Universal Music Group Partnership is across Decca Records, Decca Publishing and Deutsche Grammophon
News Deezer inks first MENA telco deal with Saudi Telecom Company Streaming company launched in the Middle East in October 2018
News Tony Harlow named Chairman & CEO of Warner Music UK “Tony has a depth and diversity of experience that few can match," says Max Lousada
News Juice WRLD: BMG, Interscope lead tributes to rapper after he dies aged 21 "Juice made a profound impact on the world in such a short period of time."
News Aviator on expanding into management, re-launching its label… and the future Aviator founder and CEO Alexander Seidl, along with COO, Lindsay Jones, bring MBW up to speed