News Prince’s Warner recordings finally land on streaming services Warner Bros boss Cameron Strang "thrilled" to introduce music to Spotify et al
News A month after posting heavy losses, SoundCloud loses two top execs COO Marc Strigel and Finance Director Markus Harder both exit troubled company
Analysis News Warner Music just joined the $1bn streaming record company club Total recorded music revenues from the likes of Spotify and Apple Music hit 10 figures in 2016
News Average streaming subscription price fell to $6.49 a month in 2015 Mark Mulligan predicts there will be 221.5m subs by 2020 worldwide
News 300 Entertainment promotes Selim Bouab to SVP, A&R Exec will continue to run his Unauthorized Entertainment label
News Downtown launches new company in Japan, partners with Avex 'Japan is the world's 2nd largest music market and has been ignored by western publishers for decades'
News Symphonic Distribution acquires Spanish house music specialist Houseplanet Florida-based Symphonic expands into Europe through buyout
Analysis Apple owns $246bn in cash. What’s it willing to spend on ruling music? Tim Cook is ready to acquire and wants original content. What could that mean for music?
Analysis News Sony Music earned $1.2bn from streaming platforms in 2016 Major label is now generating around $167k every hour from Spotify, Apple Music et al
News Spain’s recorded music market grew in 2016… but by just €3.5m Spain's digital business exceeded €100m in 2016, representing 61% of the market, according to forecasts
News Why did Sprint pay $200m for TIDAL? Sprint, majority-owned by Japanese giant Softbank, believes it can help TIDAL grow "substantially"
News MBW was read by 1.8m users last year, generating 4.4m page views Website traffic jumps 67%; MBW's email services now reach 30,000 subscribers
Analysis News SoundExchange payouts grew 10% to a record $884m last year Organization distributed nearly half a billion dollars in second half of 2016
Analysis How Facebook can go from villain to hero: Pinch Vevo from YouTube Why the music business's own video channel could be the key to helping Mark Zuckerberg
News Vevo now boasts almost 100m active users in the US market Meanwhile, 43% of YouTube viewers are watching Vevo videos