Music Business Worldwide

Billie Eilish

Universal Music Group is now an $8bn-a-year company, as streaming revenues surge 21.5% in record 2019

Company now generates more than $11m every day from streaming

Uber’s former Head of Music Zach Zimmerman launches artist management firm, ZTZ Entertainment

Roster includes dance music producer/DJ David Dann, pop singer-songwriter Chloe Gilligan and electronic musician/producer Rocket Pengwin

Billie Eilish bags $25m Apple TV+ documentary deal – report

R.J. Cutler-directed doc has already been filmed

The major record labels are signing over 50 artists a month. Is that too many?

The majors are inking deals with over 600 artists every year

Sofar Sounds raises $25m to help ‘scale the artist-fan connection globally’

Raise is being led by Battery Ventures and Union Square Ventures

Behind Billie Eilish: Meet the managers guiding the artist’s global success

The rising star's co-managers, Danny Rukasin and Brandon Goodman, talk exclusively to MBW

Behind Billie Eilish: Songwriter brother Finneas O’Connell on the duo’s unique recording process

Finneas O'Connell explains how Eilish's album achieved a rare intimacy

Billie Eilish proves that young people WILL stream blockbuster albums… when they’re encouraged to do so

Average listener of album on day one listened through 81% of 14-track album

Zane Lowe on why Apple Music is ‘in the storytelling business’ – and why Billie Eilish is ‘magic’

The Apple Music exec and Beats 1 anchor on what he wants to achieve – and the 17-year-old wunderkind