News Secretly Distribution opens in London Firm will service Secretly Group labels and more than 40 others
News Canada’s Supreme Court rules media must pay for audiovisual recordings Big decision for 'creative middle class' in territory
News Sony and Universal agenda ‘a huge threat’ despite indies’ US licensing victory, says Mills US Register Of Copyrights essentially quashes major labels' request - for now
News BMG signs Emerson, Lake & Palmer global catalogue deal Deal covers US and Europe but not South East Asia
Analysis How Global Release Day has stuffed Thanksgiving week in the US Has the new Friday release date put the kibosh on a key sales opportunity for labels?
Analysis Bill Gates said content would be king. So why are ad-funded services paying us so little? The BPI's Geoff Taylor discusses labels' big challenges in 2015 - especially YouTube
News Adele has done it: 25 records biggest ever first week sales in US market UK sales storm past half a million in three days
News Amazon is releasing its own music again… Indie For The Holidays just hit Amazon Prime Music and traditional store
News The Orchard acquires metal label Shrapnel Records catalogue Catalogue of 3,000 tracks includes Paul Gilbert and Indigenous
Interviews What will record deals look like in the future? Martin Goldschmidt, Paul Spraggon, Billy Bragg and Phil Morais debate the big topics
News Martin Mills re-appointed as Merlin Chairman Secretly Canadian and other join not-for-profit's global board
Interviews Major label A&R crisis? What major label A&R crisis? Alison Donald, Nick Gatfield and Jim Chancellor debate this week's scary numbers
News Beggars Group posts £3.8m profit in 2014 – without a new Adele record XL turns over £11.5m with £2.7m profit
Analysis News Streaming income overtakes download at Universal as digital sales rise 6% Streaming now bigger than downloads at UMG
Analysis Hang on… is the A&R hit rate of UK major labels just 5.7%? A different way of looking at the BPI's latest A&R stats