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
News What state was Ministry Of Sound in before it was sold to Sony? Ministry's revenues were up in 2015 - but relied heavily on physical compilation sales
News Warner/Chappell starts licensing ex-Carlin production music in US and Canada More than 40,000 tracks now licensed by major publisher worldwide
News Ed Poston joins Imagem Music UK as Senior A&R Former Glassnote and BMI exec joins publishing home of Pink Floyd and Mark Ronson
News Downtown Music Publishing launches JV with the Invisible Men First signing at new venture is Zayn collaborators Saltwives
News Tidal launches ‘master-quality’ streaming with MQA The format is available worldwide for subscribers to the premium HiFi tier
Analysis 3 ominous problems the UK music business must overcome in 2017 When should the UK business turn its back on the album... and other questions
News Universal acquires Japan’s ‘full stack’ music company, Office Augusta Office Augusta runs divisions across management, label, publishing and more