A2IM’s Libera Awards: Merlin, Sub Pop and Sturgill Simpson amongst winners

The A2IM Libera Awards returned to New York last week (June 25) to celebrate the [...]

Apple Music is coming to Sonos this year

One of the most popular articles on MBW this month was our description of the [...]

SoundCloud boss on Apple, free music and going legit

When Alexander Ljung tells MBW that SoundCloud boasts a “larger scale than anything else out [...]

Ashley Tabor’s Global Entertainment buys into UK promoter Broadwick Live

Global Entertainment, the content creation arm of Ashley Tabor’s Global, is getting into the festivals [...]

Major labels share $210m in pre-1972 Sirius XM settlement

The major labels plus ABKCO – the owner of classic Rolling Stones copyrights – have jointly [...]

Rob Hallett’s Robomagic backs growing UK festival Standon Calling

Live music bigwig Rob Hallett has thrown his backing behind independent UK festival Standon Calling, [...]

Independent labels reach digital tipping point – driven by streaming

Merlin, the global digital rights agency representing 20,000 independent labels including the likes of Beggars [...]

Apple Music will be £9.99 in UK, and 90-day free trial is moveable

A couple more interesting nuggets of news regarding Apple Music have come MBW’s way four [...]

Apple is paying indie labels $0.002 per stream for free trial… BEFORE tax

It looks like Apple has finally reached a settlement with the independents over Apple Music‘s [...]

Spotify acquires data provider to the UN – and Beats Music

Spotify has beefed up its bid to become No.1 in terms of music audience intelligence, [...]

Australian music market won’t grow over next 5 years – report

The entire Australian music market, encompassing physical, digital and live, is heading for five flat [...]

And the world’s first Apple Music exclusive is…

Now the indies (and Taylor Swift) have endorsed Apple Music, the great 2015 streaming war [...]

Cécile Rap-Veber named Director of International Collections at SACEM

Cécile Rap-Veber has been named Director of International Collections at French collection society SACEM – [...]

Google Play launches free Pandora rival in the US

Google Play has ‘gone freemium’ in the US, launching an ad-supported digital radio service in [...]

TIDAL loses its second CEO this year – a week before Apple Music arrives

TIDAL has lost its second CEO in two months as Peter Tonstad exits the HD [...]