News Downtown Music Publishing bolsters team with ten new hires The news comes soon after a shopping spree for the company
News Music licensing platform Songtradr expands service for artists and licensees Music licensing platform steps up its game
News SoundCloud Go goes super-cheap in $1 for three months promotion Loss-making service gets aggressive on price with new promotion
News CI forms strategic alliance with Entertainment Intelligence CI's clients will be able to use Entertainment Intelligence for sales and usage data analysis
News Da Beat Freakz sign with Cloud 9 Music – Bucks to represent in the UK London-based duo have scored cuts with Usher, Chris Brown and Sean Paul
News Primary Wave acquires Rough Trade Publishing stake in $5m+ financing deal Rough Trade has signed the likes of War On Drugs, Superchunk, Grizzly Bear, the Magnetic Fields, Against Me!, and Future Islands
News Jack White signs first ever global publishing deal with UMPG During his 20-year career, White has amassed 170 songwriting credits, including collaborations with Beyoncé and Alicia Keys
Analysis If Vivendi sells a chunk of Universal Music Group… who’d buy it? Could Alibaba, Tencent, Apple, Google or Access Industries buy their way into UMG?
News Imagem USA extends publishing deal with The Irving Berlin Music Company R&H Theatricals also renews its worldwide theatrical licensing representation agreement for Berlin musicals
News Concord launches Craft Recordings as its official reissue label Concord is home to more than 10,000 catalogue masters
Interviews Pascal Nègre: ‘The music business used to be major vs. indie. Now it’s the quick vs. the slow.’ Pascal Negre talks major labels, his new management venture - and his departure from Universal Music Group
News Rostrum Records promotes Nicole Plantin to VP, A&R Previously, Plantin was Director, Writer Publisher Relations at BMI in Los Angeles
Interviews Amazon’s Steve Boom: ‘Music streaming still needs to get a lot easier for consumers’ Amazon's VP of Music, Steve Boom, answers MBW's questions on the future of how people listen
News Why I hope the major publishers miss out on buying ole and Carlin Bucks Music MD Simon Platz explains why the sale of independent publishers hurts emerging writers
News Ryan Tedder sells 170 song copyrights to Downtown Music Publishing Sale part of wide-ranging deal which will see Downtown administer future compositions