News Musicians have earned over $5m through Bandzoogle since the pandemic began Nearly $500,000 came from digital music sales alone, the company reports
News BMG eliminates ‘poisonous’ Controlled Composition clauses from its US record contracts BMG will refrain applying the reductions to any new record deals – and remove them from its entire catalog
Interviews ‘The pandemic has shown our industry at its best, coming together to help those in need.’ PPL CEO Peter Leathem discusses opportunities in the global royalty collection sector and how the music licensing company's operations were impacted this year...
News Twitch, still unlicensed by majors, launches rights-cleared music via deals with indie distributors and labels Soundtrack by Twitch will have more than a million tracks available from over 30 music companies
News Reservoir acquires catalog of masters & publishing copyrights from Nashville’s Sorted Noise Synch-focused original music company was founded in 2008
Blog Live streaming must respect the rights of songwriters "Music is central to the livestreaming phenomenon."
News BTS partners with Epic Games for new video premiere on Fortnite’s Party Royale Main Stage In-game event to take place on Friday, September 25
Analysis Interviews 5 Things We Learned From Warner Music Group boss Steve Cooper at his Goldman Sachs interview WMG's Chief Executive was grilled today at the annual Goldman Sachs Communacopia event
News Beatport inks exclusive livestreaming partnership with Twitch Beatport’s Twitch channel has over 140,000 followers
News TIDAL to livestream concert series in partnership with Facebook’s Oculus VR All performances will be available simultaneously in Oculus Venues and TIDAL
News Rap battle league King of the Dot inks global partnership with Twitch King of the Dot will offer free access to all of its battles for subscribers
News The Grammy Museum is launching a $2.99-a-month streaming service Service launches with an interview with Billie Eilish and FINNEAS
News Streaming pushed Spain’s record industry revenues up 4% to $158m in H1 2020… despite pandemic 'The fact that the industry has proven to be resilient to the Covid crisis in the first half of 2020 is very rewarding.'
News Big Hit, headed for a $4bn valuation, hands $54m in shares to BTS members ahead of IPO Bang Si-hyuk's stake in Big Hit is currently worth comfortably over $1 billion
News Spotify appears to be building a karaoke feature – just as Twitch shuts down Sings Karaoke app Twitch Sings to shut on January 1, 2021