News Sony $2.3bn takeover of EMI Music Publishing gets green light in Europe Deal takes Sony's ownership of publishing copyrights above 4m
News Downtown signs Theophilus London to his first music publishing deal Deal with Kanye West collaborator includes catalog
News Sony declines to submit concessions to EC over proposed $2.3bn EMI Music Publishing buyout Proposed deal values EMI Music Publishing at $4.75 billion
News Natascha Augustin named Senior Creative Director at Warner/Chappell Germany Augustin’s promotion completes a recent restructure of Warner/Chappell’s German A&R team
News Columbia Records appoints Manos Xanthogeorgis Senior Vice President of Digital Marketing and Media Xanthogeorgis was previously Vice President, Head of International Digital for Sony Music Entertainment.
News SoundCloud Partners with Native Instruments, Serato, Virtual DJ, DEX3, Mixvibes and Hercules The integrations will begin rolling out in 2019
Analysis Fortnite is a video game phenomenon. The music business could learn a lot from its success. Innovative pricing and content approaches are leading to massive revenues for Epic Games title
News Downtown signs multi-territory music publishing deal with John Butler Downtown will administer more than 100 compositions as part of the deal
News SACEM signs multi-territory digital licensing deal with Music Sales Group SACEM will manage the licensing, collection and distribution of royalties for nearly 120,000 works
News BMG buys World Circuit Records Deal includes Grammy award-winning Buena Vista Social Club (BVSC) album
Interviews ‘Creativity and authenticity is what’s going to continue driving our business.’ Carolyn Williams, EVP of Marketing at RCA Music Group, discusses her biggest lessons learned and changing role of marketing
Interviews ‘Artists can always handle the truth. What they can’t handle is being f**ked around.’ Jamie Oborne, Dirty Hit founder, on The 1975, Wolf Alice and more
News Warner’s X5 Music names Stefan Enberg as CEO, Johan Lagerlöf leaves company Enberg steps up from previous role as COO
News Downloads are crashing across the music industry. But at Beatport, they’re actually climbing. Why? Robb McDaniels talks MBW through the resurgence of one of dance music's biggest brands
News SoundCloud signs new deal with Global’s DAX as exclusive UK sales partner DAX allows advertisers to target SoundCloud’s audience based on age, gender, location, preferred listening genre and device type