News Grammy-winning producers The Stereotypes launch joint publishing venture with eOne Company also inks direct publishing deal with Ray Charles McCullough II
Interviews How to manage The Rolling Stones: ‘If you start taking it for granted, that’s doomsday.’ Joyce Smith, manager of The Rolling Stones, on being in the center of the storm
News TIDAL expands into Africa via MTN partnership – with monthly subs costing $4 (or less) Tie up with telco could reach over 10m customers in continent
News Spotify is going big on podcasts to help fix its troubled finances Joe Budden Podcast comes exclusively to platform, as Ebb & Flow launches with vodka sponsor
News Downtown Music Publishing acquires over 3,000 film and TV music rights Publisher acquires music from Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Project Runway and The Real World
News Amazon Music unleashes major ad campaign, A Voice is All You Need Campaign features Ariana Grande, Kendrick Lamar, SZA, Queen, and Kane Brown
News Cinq Music partners with Janet Jackson for new music Recording and distribution deal covers upcoming single ‘Made For Now’ featuring Daddy Yankee
Analysis What happens when artists and record labels build and buy their own media companies? Cherie Hu breaks down the increasing similarities between 'music companies' and 'media companies'
News CD Baby now publishes over a million songs – and says it’s ‘helping solve the industry’s publishing problem one songwriter at a time’ US-based company first moved into publishing space five years ago
News Amazon Music hires Andre Stapleton as Head of US Label Relations Exec joins Amazon from Sony Music Entertainment
News Alexa is coming to cars, thanks to new Amazon developer kit Developer kit released to install Alexa within car dashboards
Analysis News Spotify is on a collision course with the major record companies. Here’s why. Spotify has a number of tricky issues to face down during its 2019 negotiations with the biggest labels
News Bucks Music Group hires Adam Soffe to sync team Soffe joins following roles at Ministry Of Sound and Universal Music
News Blue Raincoat Artists hires managers Darin Harmon and Josh Fisher Artists Phoebe Bridgers and DJ Hector brought into the fold
News Sony’s EMI takeover ‘has to be blocked’ says IMPALA, as it files official EC complaint Helen Smith and co voice regulatory concerns over the year's biggest music takeover