BMG buys Sanctuary Records for around £40m

BMG has signed a binding agreement to acquire Sanctuary Records from Universal Music. The deal [...]

Spotify expands into Poland, Portugal and Italy

Spotify has expanded into three European markets for the first time – Italy, Poland and [...]

BMG and Bella Union team up in the US

Bella Union Songs, the publishing division of Bella Union Records has inked a joint publishing [...]

Republic Records founders re-sign with Universal

Universal Music Group (UMG) has signed new long-term agreements with Republic Records founders Monte Lipman [...]

Kobalt and STIM form pan-EU licensing group

Kobalt Music Group and Swedish copyright management organisation STIM have launched Kobalt STIM Aggregated Rights [...]

Patti-Anne Tarlton joins Ticketmaster Canada from MLSE

Patti-Anne Tarlton has been appointed as the SVP and COO of Ticketmaster Canada. Current COO [...]

Tunetribe appoints Terry Boland as GM

Digital entertainment specialist TuneTribe has appointed experienced retail expert Terry Boland as its new General [...]

Historic retailer HMV plunged into administration

The HMV Group, which employs 4,000 workers across 230 UK stores, is now on the [...]

Pascal Nègre steps up to global role at Universal

Pascal Nègre, President of Universal Music France, Italy, Middle East and Africa, is to expand [...]

New appointments at Universal Music Mexico

Two ex-EMI execs have taken big jobs in Central America at Universal: Alfredo Delgadillo has [...]

Lou Ragagnin appointed COO at Canada’s ole

Independent Canadian music publishing house ole has appointed Lou Ragagnin as its new COO. Ragagnin [...]

Max Hole promoted to Chairman of Universal Music Group International

Max Hole ha been promoted to become Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of UMG International [...]

Irving Azoff quits Live Nation

Irving Azoff, chairman of Live Nation Entertainment, has quit the company in a surprise announcement. [...]

BMG acquires Mute Records catalogue in multi-million pound deal

BMG has acquired the catalogue of Mute Records – previously owned by EMI – from [...]

BMG splashes out on Take That and Nirvana songs with Virgin Publishing buy

The worldwide rights for the Virgin Music Publishing and Famous UK Music Publishing catalogues are [...]