News Rhapsody makes two senior hires and ‘formally’ launches Powered by Napster service Angel Gambino joins as Chief Commercial Officer and John Law as VP, Head of Product
News Cooking Vinyl Publishing signs joint venture deal with Sound Collective Sound Collective currently manages over 15 songwriters and producers
News Why is SiriusXM buying Pandora in a $3.5bn deal – and what’s it going to do with a music streaming platform? The biggest deal of 2019 so far should close by the end of this week
News Artist finance firm Sound Royalties expands into Nashville The new Nashville office joins its other locations in South Florida and Los Angeles
News Former Syco exec Charles Garland-founded SRM Sport & Entertainment partners with 23 Capital Garland was Global CEO of Syco Entertainment
News Universal Music makes changes to Global Classics And Jazz Division’s executive management team Holly Adams promoted to Head of Soundtrack and Score, Global Classics and Jazz and Globe UK
News The four types of music subscription models in 2019 What music fans are spending money on every month – and how it's going to evolve
Interviews News Article 13: Music industry optimistic that re-drafted text can still crush YouTube ‘Value Gap’ John Phelan, Director General of publishers' global body the ICMP, weighs in on the status of the Copyright Directive
News Logic manager Chris Zarou launches Sony Music imprint, Visionary Records Zarou is the founder and CEO of artist management company Visionary Music Group
News Napster has a new majority owner, as RealNetworks doubles its stake in a deal worth up to $40 million RealNetworks has doubled its previous stake of around 42% to approximately 84%
News YouTube Music sponsors BRIT Awards, calling show a ‘lightning rod for artist successes’ 'We’ve been the international livestream partner for the previous five years and have delivered some incredible numbers.'
News Personalization startup Canopy hires Spotify Discover Weekly creator Matt Ogle and NYT journalist Bassey Etim Canopy uses on-device machine learning for content discovery
News Nick Raphael and Jo Charrington to keynote MUSEXPO 2019 Creative Summit MUSEXPO’s Creative Summit takes place March 24–27
News YouTube Music-supported Accelerator Programme for Music Managers reveals 24 execs to receive funding The initiative offers 12-month grants of up to £15,000
News BMG ups Patrick Joest to Executive Vice President, Global Partnerships & Synch Joest was previously Global EVP, International Licensing & Marketing