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
News TIDAL ‘fake streams’: Criminal investigation underway over potential data fraud in Norway Norway's National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime opens investigation
Analysis Daniel Ek wasn’t lying: streaming is becoming less dominated by mega-hits The number of plays attracted by the Top 50 audio streaming hits last year went DOWN
News What Netflix’s ‘choose-your-own-soundtrack’ paradigm reveals about the future of the music industry If movies become more interactive on our televisions, what will it mean for licensing?