Analysis News Universal Music Group is being valued at $42bn – and could ignite a major label sales frenzy The sale of up to 50% of UMG could tempt Sony and Warner to consider their options
News Class action lawsuits filed in New York against Sony and Universal The suits seek damages for copyright infringement and declaratory relief
News EMPIRE hires Amir Abbassy in Content role and Peter Kadin as VP of Marketing Company will soon release music from Iggy Azalea and Robin Thicke
News Music Modernization Act: Labels and publishers back NMPA’s bid to run new mechanical rights society Universal, Sony and Warner, as well as indies, support publisher org's application
News Marshmello just played a live set to 10m people in video game Fortnite – and that wasn’t even the most interesting move he made this weekend DJ's new single, performed in Hindi, is out now, featuring Pritam
Analysis English-language music is losing its stranglehold on global pop charts – and YouTube is driving the change When YouTube’s charts say what's popular, you better believe it. And, right now, "what's popular" applies increasingly less to U.S. pop stars.
News Why is SiriusXM buying Pandora in a $3.5bn deal – and what’s it going to do with a music streaming platform? The biggest deal of 2019 so far should close by the end of this week
News Sentric and Strictly Confidential renew deal with Joe Hammill Hammill landed his first No.1 record in 2016 after co-writing Alice On The Roof’s debut album Higher
News Nigeria’s Mavin Records secures multi-million dollar investment from Kupanda Holdings “Our mission is to grow Mavin Global into the music powerhouse of Africa,” says Don Jazzy
Interviews ‘My challenge to myself is: make sure you’re writing with people who make you better.’ World's Greatest Songwriters: Tayla Parx
Analysis News SoundCloud revenues grew 80% to top $100m in 2017, as losses narrowed 27% Subscription revenues nearly doubled in the year, up to $82m
News The four types of music subscription models in 2019 What music fans are spending money on every month – and how it's going to evolve
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?
Interviews News Article 13: Music industry optimistic that re-drafted text can still crush YouTube ‘Value Gap’ John Phelan, Director General of publishers' global body the ICMP, weighs in on the status of the Copyright Directive
News R. Kelly may have been ‘dropped’ – but he’s still making nice money from streaming The singer/songwriter's reputation is in tatters – but he's still coining it in from his back catalog