News Savan Kotecha, Sonny Takhar launch publishing company, partner with UMPG "We know our songwriters and producers will benefit from having Universal Music Publishing’s global muscle behind them."
News Liberty Media: We’re still interested in buying a stake in Universal – but we’d probably prefer to control it "Would we prefer a path to control? Usually in life we do..."
News Ticketmaster acquires Australia’s Moshtix Moshtix will continue to operate as a standalone business
News Eshy Gazit, manager of K-Pop stars Monsta X, joins Maverick Gazit is perhaps best known for this work with K-Pop phenomenon BTS, for whom he acted as U.S partner during their historic rise between 2016 and 2018.
News 4th Floor Creative Group President Cassandra Gracey to speak at The Great Escape 2019 Gracey is among the first 40 speakers announced for the UK conference
News Festicket secures $4.6m funding from Edge Investments Funding will support Festicket’s entrance into new markets
Analysis Seven startups Spotify should (try to) buy to better serve artists Merch, hardware, A&R, crowd-funding and more offered by some impressive young companies
Analysis News These might be the 5 most powerful people in the music business – despite none of them working in the music business Who are the bosses of the music industry's bosses?
News Universal’s Bravado buys Epic Rights, boosting UMG’s $250m+ merch business UMG turns over more than $250m from merch each year
Interviews ‘This is the most exciting time for music publishing I’ve ever known.’ Concord's Kim Frankiewicz on her career, the modern publishing business and pushing women forward
News Will Liberty Media, piece by piece, become king of the global music business? One conglomerate could soon have a stake in SEVEN billion-dollar music companies
News Is Liberty Media about to buy into talent agency CAA? Report suggests that multi-media corporation is in discussions with Kanye West's rep
News Rob Stringer: Sony Music is ‘rolling out titles across our vast catalog’ for 360 Reality Audio experience The 360 Reality Audio content is planned to be provided via Deezer, nugs.net, Qobuz and TIDAL
News Universal Music Group is worth $33bn, says Deutsche Bank Investment group suggests Liberty Media, Tencent or Google could buy into UMG
Interviews ‘Artist development is a long game — you want to make a solid foundation.’ H.E.R. manager Jeanine Mclean-Williams discusses management principles, artist development and playing the long game