News Cooking Vinyl signs Run For Cover deal in Australia Partnership kicks off with Turnover's Peripheral Vision
News Downloads down 12% in UK, albums down 5% – but streaming soars 81% Overall album sales fall 5.3% in unit terms
News Australian country label WJO partners with Universal Company boasts a roster in excess of 1,000 titles
News PledgeMusic launches Emerging Artist Series with Swatch Danish artist Oh Land kicks off campaign in the US
News Universal Music Group Distribution brand closes, functions re-homed Two key execs pinched from Sony Music and Warner Music
News Warner owner Len Blavatnik is Britain’s richest billionaire Blavatnik is 18 times richer than Sir Paul McCartney
News Songwriters suffer from ‘nonsensical disparity’ of streaming payments… says a Grammy-winning artist 'The time for change is now', argues Ne-Yo
News Canada’s ole acquires Mark-Cain catalogue and Taurus recordings Includes Max Webster, Ian Thomas and Lawrence Gowan tracks
News Canada set to extend artist copyright term from 50 to 70 years Leonard Cohen and others welcome move
News PledgeMusic hires Scott Hueston as Head of Artist Solutions in North America Exec is a former GM of Wicked Cool Records
News Global recorded music revenues grew 0.7% last year… excluding Japan Japan revenues were down 5.5% in 2014
News Vampire Weekend’s Baio signs to Glassnote for solo project Artist says he's "beyond thrilled" to agree terms with Daniel Glass's label
News Former EMI boss Roger Faxon to join Pandora’s Board Ex-AEG CEO Tim Leiweke also joining controversial radio company
News PPL international revenue payouts top £14m in Q1 Investment in BMAT, Radio Monitor and Soundmouse helped boost CMO
News 20% of people online are music pirates – but most know it’s theft 4 billion music downloads took place from BitTorrent sites last year