News Sony/ATV to pay songwriters faster, introduce cash withdrawal service, in new royalty system upgrade “I am proud to announce these ambitious new initiatives that will help to deliver our strategy to be the best service company in the world for songwriters."
Analysis Blog ‘Think Billie Eilish meets Lil Nas X, but more organic…’ Lucas Keller, founder of Milk + Honey, sounds off on record label A&R...
News Spotify: We ‘overpaid’ songwriters and their publishers in 2018, and we would like our money back Technicality in CRB ruling means publishers now owe Spotify millions of dollars
Analysis Blog If songs are more important than ever, why don’t more music publishers act like it? Downtown CEO Justin Kalifowitz says the industry can be doing much more for its star talent
Analysis How much money is the US music publishing industry making? A billion dollars more than it was 4 years ago. New stats from the NMPA, analyzed by MBW, reveal some surprising commercial facts
Interviews ‘Songwriters and publishers should never be an afterthought for digital services.’ Apple Music's global publishing head, Elena Segal, on the industry, those CRB appeals, and her career to date
News Spanish collection society SGAE, plagued by corruption claims, kicked out of global PRO body CISAC 'The Wheel' finally catches up with SGAE
Interviews ‘Market dominance is unhealthy for consumers and rightsholders’ Songtrust's Molly Neuman discusses the state of the publishing sector, direct deals and gender parity in music
Analysis News How Spotify could pinch back over $320m from songwriters with its new legal appeal What scrapping Copyright Royalty Board's new rates might mean for songwriters and publishers
News Savan Kotecha, Sonny Takhar launch publishing company, partner with UMPG "We know our songwriters and producers will benefit from having Universal Music Publishing’s global muscle behind them."
News ole acquires Parallel Music Publishing catalog Parallel’s catalog consists of more than 6,500 songs
News BDi Music signs Æ MAK to exclusive worldwide publishing deal Æ MAK and collaborator Lullahush play Eurosonic 2019 on Friday January 18
News Merck Mercuriadis buys again, as Hipgnosis snaps up Giorgio Tuinfort catalog “Giorgio is arguably the most underrated hit songwriter of the last 20 years."
News Downtown signs Theophilus London to his first music publishing deal Deal with Kanye West collaborator includes catalog
News Newly independent IMPEL to select Board at first AGM Publishers’ digital licensing organisation became independent from MPA in April 2018