News Record industry attacks YouTube for ‘carpet-bombing propaganda’ over Article 13 Labels respond to latest Lyor Cohen op/ed, which claims artists will be paid less after Article 13
News Lyor Cohen: Article 13 could mean ‘less money for artists and songwriters on YouTube’ 'Article 13 would [open up] YouTube... to unmitigated liability and such a large financial risk, we would be forced to block huge amounts of video.'
News Anghami partners with ACRCloud to bring Radar music recognition feature to Middle East It’s done so ahead of Apple fully integrating Shazam into its service
Analysis Why did Warner just spend $180m to buy a merchandising company? Merch is becoming a huge, and vital, component of artist careers
News Pandora Premium can now be streamed through Amazon Echo devices The company published a blog post announcing the news 'just in time for the holidays'
Analysis News Universal is having a huge year – right on time for sale-hungry Vivendi UMG's current performance suggests that, with a strong Q4, it will turn over somewhere close to $7bn in the full year of 2018
Analysis News Liberty Media: We’re ‘absolutely’ interested at looking into buying a stake in Universal Music Group The starting pistols go off on the biggest music rights deal of the year
News UK music tech firm Pirate Studios receives $20m investment from Talis Capital The investment will fund new locations across UK, US and Germany
News Pandora rolls out new podcast recommendation technology in beta The platform's podcast's are powered by the Podcast Genome Project
Interviews ‘It’s always in your best interest to bank a lot of karma chips in the music industry’ Big Deal founder Kenny MacPherson on success – and the opposite of success
Analysis The future looks bleak for the album – can it be saved? Music industry statistics paint a worrying picture for music's most beloved format
News 90% of Nordic population stream music, but free services dominate Only 43% of the region's population are premium subscribers
Blog Releasing music is easy. Building a music career is harder than ever Absolute Label Services Director Simon Wills on Spotify's challenge to traditional gatekeepers and why career artists may feel not much has changed
News Warner/Chappell Music Mexico hires Carlos Ruiz Díaz as Managing Director Diaz reports to Gustavo Menendez, President, Warner/Chappell Music, Latin America
News YouTube: We’ve paid the music business $1.8bn in ad money over the past 12 months That's nearly double what YouTube paid out in 2016