News UMG’s Michele Anthony named UJA-Federation’s Music Visionary of the Year EVP of major music group to collect gong in New York on June 14
Interviews Alex da Kid: ‘There’s going to be a resurgence in independent music companies’ British producer and label exec Alex da Kid reveals his vision for KIDinaKORNER after signing UMG deal
News Brazil CMO UBC bolsters neighbouring rights division after signing Sony and Warner Both Warner and Warner/Chappell were previously represented by local society ABRAMUS, as was Sony
Analysis Blog Are the major labels in danger of turning music streaming into a monopoly owned by Apple? Songtradr's Paul Wiltshire warns majors not to kill off Spotify
News Ed Sheeran is now officially the biggest artist on Spotify worldwide The Warner-signed British artist has over 42m monthly listeners
News APRA AMCOS signs Pan-Asian deal with Sydney publisher Origin Music ORiGiN's catalogue includes music from Wally De Backer (aka Gotye), Cookin’ On Three Burners and James Morrison
News Universal second major to sign licensing deal with HD music firm MQA The deal follows a similar agreement made with Warner in May last year
News Spirit Music Group hires Angie Maggini as VP, Film & Television Former Global and BMG exec to run synch out of Los Angeles
News Kobalt hires Silvia Montello as SVP, Supply Chain and Client Services Pete Dodge exits company after five years
News Prince’s Warner recordings finally land on streaming services Warner Bros boss Cameron Strang "thrilled" to introduce music to Spotify et al
News Frank Ocean lets rip at The Grammys. And really, who can blame him? 'I bought all my masters back last year in the prime of my career, that’s successful.'
News Spotify Premium, marching towards 50m subs, goes free… in New York Times bundle deal Promotion mirrors similar deal run with The Times (UK) in 2014
News Warner/Chappell Production Music promotes Aaron Gant to SVP Exec joined publisher when it acquired 615 Music in 2010
News UMPG hires Viacom’s Rochelle Holguin as VP of Creative Strategy Exec worked on series including Teen Wolf, Awkward and Faking It
News BMG brings together 400,000 production music tracks under one brand BMG Production Music headed up by Geert-Willem Koolhof