News Radio platform Stationhead, which counts Kevin Liles & Downtown as investors, adds on-demand content Music is streamed through Apple Music and Spotify integrations
Analysis Entertainment Is Getting Even Shorter, And Even Longer. What About The ‘Purgatory’ In The Middle? Cherie Hu tackles changing trends in audio-visual media
News Spirit Music Group signs multi-faceted deal with Carrie Underwood collaborator David Garcia He has co-written and produced several chart-topping songs for Bebe Rexha, Carrie Underwood, Florida Georgia Line, Kip Moore, Chris Lane, and others.
News Circa Waves’ Kieran Shudall signs with Sentric Music Group Exclusive songwriting agreement includes latest LP What’s It Like Over There?
News Sony and Tencent’s ‘East meets West’ label, Liquid State, ramps up A&R with R3HAB signing, new projects 'Liquid State is committed to making R3HAB not only one of the biggest artists in China, but also across the whole Asia continent.'
News Instrumental enters global artist discovery partnership with Corite, the new Stockholm-based platform that allows fans to invest in artists Corite will leverage Instrumental’s TalentAI platform to identify emerging musicians on its platform
News Austin Daboh joins Apple Music as Head of Editorial for UK & Ireland Daboh reports to George Ergatoudis, Head of Music at Apple Music UK
News As predicted, Amazon launches $15-per-month hi-def music streaming service, Amazon Music HD “Earth will be changed forever when Amazon introduces high quality streaming to the masses," says Neil Young
News Sony/ATV extends deal with Grammy-winning songwriter Boi-1da Songwriter has penned hits for superstars including Drake, Rihanna, Eminem, Cardi B
News Deezer plans 2020 User-Centric Payment System pilot launch – if it can get rightsholders to sign up Companies that support Deezer’s UCPS proposal so far include Because Music, Wagram Music, Play Two, Idol and others
News Cindy James named Head Of Commercial Marketing for Caroline James was most recently Vice President of Streaming & Playlisting Strategy for Island Records
News UMPG appoints Stephen J. Dallas as SVP, Business & Legal Affairs and Digital Business Development He previously served as Vice President, Digital Legal Affairs & Business Development at Warner Chappell Music
News Alibaba to acquire 20% of NetEase Cloud Music, say sources (UPDATE) Major league deal will take on Tencent Music Entertainment, owner of QQ Music, Kuwo and KuGou
News The United States is about to become a $10bn recorded music market again – for the first time since 2007 US market now on course to generate over $1bn EVERY MONTH from recorded music in the first half of 2020
Analysis Taylor Swift’s Lover: A lightning rod for a record industry struggling to define its own success MBW takes a long, hard look at one of the biggest albums of the year so far