News Rodrigo Domingues named Managing Director of peermusic Portugal Domingues joined peermusic Portugal in 2001
News SoundCloud Go+ launches in Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland SoundCloud Go+ and SoundCloud’s free, ad-supported tier are now available in 14 countries
News Royalty software company Backbeat launches new CWR processing service Italy's Machiavelli Music registers over 75,000 songs with local PRO
News Reservoir signs multi-platinum-selling songwriter & artist RuthAnne to global publishing deal RuthAnne’s chart topping co-writes have amassed 2 billion streams between them
News Mojo Music & Media acquires majority stake in publishing company Chelsea Music Chelsea's repertoire includes standards made famous by Frank Sinatra
News Warner Chappell Music acquires Gene Autry Music Group Catalog includes "Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)"
News Spanish collection society SGAE, plagued by corruption claims, kicked out of global PRO body CISAC 'The Wheel' finally catches up with SGAE
News SoundCloud launches DJ software integration with Native Instruments 'DJs at any level can utilize these artist-curated mixes to jump right into mixing sets using SoundCloud and TRAKTOR DJ 2.'
News ‘We are here to serve songwriters – we cut out middle-people as much as we can.’ Roberto Neri on the last four years at Downtown - and the future
News Sony makes major hip-hop move in Germany, inking Selfmade deal and hiring Elvir Omerbegovic Omerbegovic named President of Urban Music, Sony Music Germany
News SoundCloud launches latest DJ software integration with Mixvibes Integration follows launches with Pioneer DJ, Serato, Virtual DJ and DEX 3.
News Downtown promotes Roberto Neri to EVP, UK and Head of European Business Development 'Roberto has been instrumental in bringing first-rate songwriters, producers and iconic catalogs to Downtown.'
News Universal holds preliminary sale talks with Tencent – but is slow deal progress a danger sign? Bloomberg report says 'some private equity investors balk at the high price and slow pace of the deal'
News Music sampling startup Tracklib raises $1.7m from Sony and WndrCo The funding round is in preparation for a Series A funding later this year
News Mushroom Music Publishing unveils company restructure under leadership of MD Linda Bosidis Restructure follows departure of MD Ian James