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'
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