Interviews Spotify and Apple Music will struggle in China. Meet the reason why… Tencent's Andy Ng gives his view on the global market exclusively to MBW
News ole signs expanded deal with Timbaland including YouTube rights Ole recently raised an acquisitions warchest of $500m
News TIDAL sells 33% stake for $200m to Softbank-owned telco Sprint Service now valued at $600m as exclusive relationship begins to blossom
Analysis Why Netflix’s growing profits will have left Spotify sweating Film and TV company's gross margins tower above those of Daniel Ek's company
Interviews News Is the global sync market set to explode for indie labels and unsigned artists? Will some of the billions spent by Netflix and Amazon on content make its way to emerging acts?
News Tencent Chief Andy Ng to deliver keynote at Midem Ng’s keynote at Midem coincides with Tencent’s push to expand elsewhere into Asia
News Sony/ATV: Paul McCartney lawsuit is ‘unnecessary and premature’ Did the former Beatle file suit to avoid the same fate as Duran Duran?
News Wixen signs sub-publishing deal with Native Tongue Native Tongue will represent Wixen’s catalogue in its home territories of Australia and New Zealand
News Warner resurrecting Asylum label in the US under ADA Dante Ross heading up A&R at imprint, which is enjoying success with Ugly God
News Sacem teams with IBM to build ‘transparent’ online royalty system URights will be open-source so other CMO’s worldwide can integrate their catalogues
Interviews ‘If the livelihood of songwriters is threatened, the music industry as a whole is threatened’ Reservoir's Golnar Khosrowshahi talks A&R and the publishing landscape
News Irving Azoff’s GMR secures global deal for Prince performance rights Deal has been in place since October 2016 on a worldwide basis
News Prince’s estate signs worldwide merch deal with Universal’s Bravado Exclusive agreement comes two months after UMPG also signed global deal
News $500m-backed ole acquires 3,000 songs in Red Vinyl Music buyout Artists such as Taylor Swift and Tim McGraw have performed tracks from Red Vinyl writers
News Downtown signs deal with Meghan Trainor publisher Big Yellow Dog Music Nashville-based company also represents Maren Morris and many more