News Japanese HQ digital music download store expands into US, UK and Germany E-Onkyo Music launches in Beta in partnership with 7Digital
News Global songwriter royalty collections steady at €6.77bn in 2013 Digital music revenues shoot up 24.5% but income from TV and movies falls badly
News Cooking Vinyl backs new UK artist management venture John Black's Black Gold now working with OWS, A*M*E and Modern Addiction
News Sony scraps its own streaming service, partners with Spotify Users to be transferred to Spotify in March
News Indies aim to chase ‘safe harbour’ out of the EU IMPALA asks EU Parliament to 'revisit the rules of engagement'
News Mel Fox appointed SVP, Comms and Strategy Development at Warner Music UK Fox joined Warner in 2006
News Rdio expands into 24 countries across the Caribbean, Central America and Asia Pacific Telco Digicel launches 30 minutes free music for 30 days deal
News Moses Martiny leaves PRS to join Sony/ATV London-based role will cover digital relations in Europe
News John Fleckenstein appointed EVP of RCA Exec moves over from International Marketing role at Sony
News Pharrell ruled EU radio in 2014 – but Milky Chance stuck up for the independents Stolen Dance was heard on 15.8bn separate occasions across Europe in 2014
Analysis 94% of Radio 1’s most-played songs in 2014 were major label releases Radio 2 Top 50 contains exactly the same major/indie ratio
News BMG teams with Nacho Cano’s publishing company Yogisongs Includes compositions from Mecano as well as solo work
News Rdio restructures in Europe with three key hires Hong Nguyen, Alex Vlassopulos and Luke Anthony join UK-based team