News Downtown launches new company in Japan, partners with Avex 'Japan is the world's 2nd largest music market and has been ignored by western publishers for decades'
News SOCAN revenues grew 8% in 2016 as it paid out over $200m to songwriters and publishers Society breaks records, but income-to-distribution ratio increases
News SESAC signs multi-Grammy Award winner Rosanne Cash Singer/songwriters joins Green Day, Randy Newman and others on firm's books
News Sony/ATV Music Publishing Ltd saw revenues grow 10% last year Publisher's UK sales topped £53m in 12 months to end of March 2016
News Sony/ATV: Paul McCartney lawsuit is ‘unnecessary and premature’ Did the former Beatle file suit to avoid the same fate as Duran Duran?
News Kobalt inks deal with Emeli Sandé’s Hard Copy Publishing Sandé helms the London-based firm alongside artist manager and producer Lamar Jackson as MD
Interviews ‘If the livelihood of songwriters is threatened, the music industry as a whole is threatened’ Reservoir's Golnar Khosrowshahi talks A&R and the publishing landscape
News Irving Azoff’s GMR secures global deal for Prince performance rights Deal has been in place since October 2016 on a worldwide basis
News $500m-backed ole acquires 3,000 songs in Red Vinyl Music buyout Artists such as Taylor Swift and Tim McGraw have performed tracks from Red Vinyl writers
News Downtown signs deal with Meghan Trainor publisher Big Yellow Dog Music Nashville-based company also represents Maren Morris and many more
News Warner/Chappell starts licensing ex-Carlin production music in US and Canada More than 40,000 tracks now licensed by major publisher worldwide
News Ed Poston joins Imagem Music UK as Senior A&R Former Glassnote and BMI exec joins publishing home of Pink Floyd and Mark Ronson
News Nigel Elderton named Chairman of UK collection society PRS Respected exec is entering his 25th year with peermusic, after being appointed UK MD in 1992
Interviews How megabucks-backed SESAC plans to simplify the music business Music rights organization's CEO John Josephson talks licensing, Facebook and global ambitions
News SESAC acquired by investment giant The Blackstone Group SESAC's 30,000 affiliates include songwriters and musicians such as Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond and RUSH