News Warner Music Group partners with Chocolate City, one of Nigeria’s leading independent labels Chocolate City is home to the likes of Femi Kuti
Blog AIM’s Gee Davy on the future of generative Artificial Intelligence in music Davy is Head of Legal & Business Affairs at The Association of Independent Music
News Downtown buys CD Baby owner for $200m AVL’s client base includes over 900,000 artists, labels and other rights holders
Interviews ‘Market dominance is unhealthy for consumers and rightsholders’ Songtrust's Molly Neuman discusses the state of the publishing sector, direct deals and gender parity in music
News Dickon Stainer takes over Verve Label Group in reshuffle as Danny Bennett exits UMG Label group will now have a global artist development and marketing strategy
News Songtradr completes $12m Series B funding round Lead investor is WiseTech Global CEO Richard White
News T-Series briefly claims No.1 YouTube channel position from PewDiePie T-Series currently has 90.399m subscribers
News Nashville’s HoriPro Entertainment Group acquired by Mojo Music Mojo Music has offices in London, New York and Nashville
Analysis News Big question: Could Google buy Universal Music Group? Google tried to buy 50% of Sony/ATV a few years ago. Could it come again for a rightsholder?
News Moby releases new album exclusively on Calm app – with potential audience of 45m people Album will be available exclusively on Calm Music for first 30 days
News Warner Music licenses Africa’s largest music streaming service, Boomplay Boomplay has more than 42 million users
News Univision teams up with Napster on Latin music streaming app, Uforia App features more than 40 million songs
News Facebook inks licensing deals with top music rightsholders in India – including Bollywood label T-Series Facebook now has deals in place for 40 countries
News Concord signs US sub-publishing deal with Paris-based Because Editions Because Editions publishes Christine & The Queens and Daft Punk