Analysis Record labels are spending more and more on signing (and paying) artists… How the record business's new-age economics are really starting to show
News Snapchat in talks with majors to expand music use in posts – report Negotiations ongoing according to Wall Street Journal
News Sofar Sounds raises $25m to help ‘scale the artist-fan connection globally’ Raise is being led by Battery Ventures and Union Square Ventures
News Universal Music Publishing Group signs Logic to exclusive administration deal Logic has amassed billions of streams and sold over five million albums
News Merck Mercuriadis’s Hipgnosis Songs Fund buys Jamie Scott catalog 'Jamie Scott has been the UK’s most consistent hitmaker of the last 10 years.'
News Pro Music Rights inks deal with Billboard-charting act OG Maco 'The industry should take note that artists will no longer have to stand idle while their royalties are tied up in an opaque, antiquated system.'
News Sony Music to deliver ‘Real Time’ royalty data to artists, and enable monthly cash withdrawals 'Real Time Royalties' and 'Cash Out' set to make life much easier for Sony acts
News Spirit B-Unique inks deal with Jon Shave from songwriting/music production trio The Invisible Men The Invisible Men's songs have been streamed over 2.5bn times on Spotify
Analysis Instagram’s new e-commerce features could transform music marketing – but only if the record industry is willing to change Should record labels start approaching Instagram differently?
News SoundCloud rolls out new DJ software integration with Pioneer DJ Company to roll out additional integrations later this year
News Tencent Music is ‘windowing’ premium music behind a streaming paywall – with ‘encouraging results’ TME is putting premium music behind a paywall. Should Spotify and Apple follow suit?
News Warner/Chappell signs Melendi, one of Spain’s biggest pop stars He has sold more than 4 million records to date
News Create Music Group launches free app for songwriters to generate split agreements Create has been beta testing the app since January
News Warner boss Steve Cooper warns against ‘devaluation’ of music from freemium streaming services, and their ‘mismanaged’ family plans Rhetoric from major label group hardens in wake of India Spotify fallout