Interviews How The Greatest Showman became the world’s favorite album of 2018 Atlantic's President on the west coast, Kevin Weaver, discusses a soundtrack phenomenon
News YouTube Music launches in India, South Africa, Argentina and more Service launches in 14 new markets
News Tencent Music’s Group Vice President Andy Ng stands down Exec is a leading figure at China's biggest streaming music company
News Hip-hop star Denzel Curry signs full catalog deal with Concord Publishing Deal is first in publisher's JV with Loma Vista Recordings
News SiriusXM creates first dedicated original content team at Pandora Team will focus on creating original content in music, sports, and talk and more
News SoundCloud launches discounted SoundCloud Go+ service for students Premium subscription for students costs $4.99/€4.99
News Apple is hiring for a Global Head of Latin Music to grow ‘multi-million dollar business programs’ Company is hiring for a Global Head of Latin Music Business in Miami
News 7digital accepts €4m settlement to end Juke Entertainment partnership The settlement sees 7digital released from all outstanding commitments relating to Juke
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 US music streaming revenues grew 30% in 2018 to hit $7.4bn, as subscriptions topped 50m $9.8bn generated at retail, with $6.6bn making its way back to artists and labels in wholesale payments
News Warner Music eyes stake in Saudi Arabia’s Rotana Music – report The WSJ reports that the stake is 'worth at least tens of millions of dollars'
Analysis News The major labels generated over $1.5bn more from streaming in 2018 than they did in the previous year Majors now turning over the equivalent of $19m a day from the likes of Spotify
News UK tastemaker Annie Mac to head up gender equality initiative, the Equalising Music Pledge The campaign is also endorsed by PRS Foundation’s Keychange initiative
News Hi-Res music streaming service Qobuz launches in the US Qobuz currently has over 100,000 active customers
News TIDAL lets users mute artists and tracks Tracks and artists can be blocked from appearing in My Mix and Artist and Track Radio playlists