News Pandora rolls out new podcast recommendation technology in beta The platform's podcast's are powered by the Podcast Genome Project
News Jack MacDonald named UK Head of Music and Entertainment at 23 Capital MacDonald joins 23 Capital from Credit Suisse where he was a Director
News Festicket raises $10.5m in Series D funding round Festicket's investors include venture capital firm Beringea and former Spinnin’ Records CEO Eelko Van Kooten
News MTV acquires SnowGlobe Music Festival The move is MTV’s latest step to expand and diversify beyond cable TV
Blog Releasing music is easy. Building a music career is harder than ever Absolute Label Services Director Simon Wills on Spotify's challenge to traditional gatekeepers and why career artists may feel not much has changed
Interviews News Jonathan Dickins on Adele, working with labels and what makes a great manager September Management founder and CEO Jonathan Dickins was interviewed on stage today in London
News MelodyVR appoints Iain Funnell as SVP Creative, Content and Editorial Funnell will work in partnership with both artists and record labels to produce VR content
News Global music collections rise 6% to €8.34bn, digital royalties top €1bn The figures were published in CISAC's 2018 Global Collections Report
Interviews ‘Lots of people told me that managing songwriters and producers wasn’t a real business.’ Milk & Honey founder Lucas Keller on his business – and the music industry
Analysis What’s the value of a song when Artificial Intelligence is everywhere? 'AI is merely forcing us to reckon even more explicitly with the tension between originality and value, collaboration and consumption.'
News AWAL signs global recordings deal with Gabrielle Aplin Partnership to support singer-songwriter’s Label Never Fade Records and upcoming third album
Analysis Spotify ‘doing a Netflix’: is Daniel Ek’s platform already too big for the labels to stop it? Mark Mulligan on why the major rights-holders may be facing a 'prisoner's dilemma'
News Downtown signs Theophilus London to his first music publishing deal Deal with Kanye West collaborator includes catalog
News Universal signs K-pop girl band to Interscope – can they repeat BTS success? The South Korean quartet is currently the highest-charting female K-pop act in Billboard Hot 100 history
News Pandora ‘goes shopping’ for another buyer, but sticks with SiriusXM Streaming company confident its $3.5bn deal will go ahead