News BMG signs global publishing deal with Juice WRLD Lucid Dreams hitmaker is signed to Interscope for his recording career
News Pandora rolls out new podcast recommendation technology in beta The platform's podcast's are powered by the Podcast Genome Project
Interviews ‘It’s always in your best interest to bank a lot of karma chips in the music industry’ Big Deal founder Kenny MacPherson on success – and the opposite of success
News Jack MacDonald named UK Head of Music and Entertainment at 23 Capital MacDonald joins 23 Capital from Credit Suisse where he was a Director
Analysis The future looks bleak for the album – can it be saved? Music industry statistics paint a worrying picture for music's most beloved format
News Helen Murphy to succeed Robert Ott as Chief Executive Officer of Ole Ott will continue to serve as an advisor to Ms. Murphy and the ole Board of Directors
News Spotify launches Publishing Analytics platform in Beta The new feature will give music publishers daily streaming statistics for their works
News India’s JioMusic to rebrand as JioSaavn after $1bn merger – report Saavn's entire catalog will reportedly be made available on JioSaavn
News Transgressive Publishing & Warner/Chappell ink publishing deal with Foals Foals have previously released four Top 10 records and are currently recording their fifth album
News Universal becomes first major to license Africa’s biggest streaming platform, Boomplay Boomplay is jointly owned by two large-scale Chinese companies
News Downtown buys independent UK music publishers Salli Isaak Music and Salli Isaak Songs The companies are home to hit songwriters Jimmy Napes and Paloma Faith
News AMRA expands in Europe and the UK, inks global deals with Spirit and Sentric New Stockholm office announced, plus hiring spree in the UK and new deals
News Sony/ATV extends pan-European digital licencing deal with SOLAR SOLAR is a jointly-owned subsidiary of PRS for Music and GEMA
News Two of Canada’s leading indie distributors, Select and Outside Music, are merging Select and Outside will maintain independent offices in Montreal and Toronto, respectively
Analysis Spotify ‘doing a Netflix’: is Daniel Ek’s platform already too big for the labels to stop it? Mark Mulligan on why the major rights-holders may be facing a 'prisoner's dilemma'