News Warner holds out on Pandora as UMG and Sony sign direct deals Traditional SoundExchange payout model looks to be under question
News UMPG signs Travis Scott as his album hits No.1 in the US Artist's new album has just leapt to No.1 in the US
News Apple Music now has 17 million subscribers, after securing 70 exclusives Spotify is outpacing the growth of its rival
News FUGA signs deals with Fire, V2 Benelux, Sounday and Earth Recordings Current label partners include Domino and Epitaph
News Spotify is making its own records… and putting them on playlists 'Chill' playlists being infiltrated by Spotify-owned recordings, MBW learns
Analysis News BMG revenues top $200m in H1 2016, with an 18% profit margin Bertelsmann-owned firm looks on course to near $500m revenue this year
News Six months of Apple Music now free with EE in the UK market Britney Spears and Kevin Bacon star in new 'multi-million pound' ad campaign
News Believe Digital buys French independent Naive for $12m Believe understood to have pipped Sony Music Entertainment to the deal
News Peermusic promotes Mary Megan Peer to Deputy CEO Exec moves up in family-run independent publisher
News BMG replaced as 50% shareholder in Phrased Differently by Cloud 9 Music UK-based publisher has placed cuts with artists such as Calvin Harris, Demi Lovato and many more
News CTM Publishing and Dennis Music jointly launch production music house News follows sale of Imagem Production Music to ole last year
News Spotify is out of contract with all three major labels – and wants to pay them less Spotify is currently paying 55% of revenue to labels. It wants to reduce it.
News SESAC signs REO Speedwagon’s Kevin Cronin Cronin wrote 'Keep On Loving You' and 'Ti,e For Me To Fly'
News Kobalt rethinks the ‘greatest hits’ album with dynamic David Gray ‘Best Of’ Playlist updates every Monday on Spotify based on track popularity