News Tencent wins Jay Chou copyright lawsuit against NetEase – report Chou is as the center of a paywall strategy for Tencent Music Entertainment
News Universal Music Group posts $2bn in Q3 2019 revenues UMG streaming revenues were up 19.7% to €837m ($936m) in Q3 2019
News As TuneCore’s 250,000 artists get access to Tencent services in China, CD Baby adds another 750,000 CD Baby partners with TME to deliver its catalog of streaming-eligible tracks to QQ Music, KuGou Kuwo
News TuneCore challenges majors in China with Tencent partnership TuneCore will makes artists’ recordings available to the platform's listener base in the country
News Sony and Tencent’s ‘East meets West’ label, Liquid State, ramps up A&R with R3HAB signing, new projects 'Liquid State is committed to making R3HAB not only one of the biggest artists in China, but also across the whole Asia continent.'
News Confirmed: Alibaba buys stake in NetEase Cloud Music in $700m deal in a separate deal, Alibaba has also acquired NetEase's import e-commerce platform Kaola for approximately $2 billion
News Alibaba to acquire 20% of NetEase Cloud Music, say sources (UPDATE) Major league deal will take on Tencent Music Entertainment, owner of QQ Music, Kuwo and KuGou
News Take a look inside Sony Music’s impressive new China HQ in Beijing "“Our new home in Beijing reinforces Sony Music’s investment in the fast-paced China market and our goal to take our local artists beyond China and place them on a regional and world stage."
Analysis Apple Music Connect: What could it have become if it wasn’t scrapped? Had Apple committed to its social media platform a little more, could it have taken on Insta and TikTok?
News Sir Lucian Grainge: Tencent’s bid to buy 10% of Universal is an ‘exciting development’ "This is an exciting development for both Vivendi and UMG and affirms once again just how much our strategy and hard work are succeeding."
News Vivendi appoints banks to help it sell up to 50% of Universal Music Group 'Several contacts have already been established with potential strategic partners,' says company
Analysis The Universal fire may be ‘heartbreaking’ – but don’t expect much impact on the music biz story of the year "It is not clear to us that the fire in the LA storage facility should have any impact on either the valuation of UMG or the sale process."
Interviews ‘Music is significantly undervalued – people are thinking about it in the wrong way.’ Kobalt's Willard Ahdritz talks publishing, major record companies, and the true worth of the business today
Interviews JioSaavn: ‘We’re doing for music what Netflix did for movies.’ The service's CEO, Rishi Malhotra, discusses his company's uniqueness – and the power of parent company Jio
News Vivendi ‘very confident’ it will ignite Universal Music Group sale process by end of the year 'UMG is doing very well. The question is how to find the right partner, up to 50%. But everything's fine – trust me!'