Cooking Vinyl Group consolidates US activity into one office

The Cooking Vinyl Group has streamlined its activities in the US into a single New [...]

Jeff Castelaz appointed President of Elektra Records

Jeff Castelaz has been named President of Elektra Records at Warner Music Group. A seasoned [...]

Universal Music completes acquisition of EMI Music

Universal Music Group (UMG) has concluded its £1.2 billion acquisition of EMI Recorded Music. The [...]

ole acquires Timbaland catalogue, signs new deal

Canadian independent company Ole has acquired the music publishing catalogue of R&B/hip-hop star Timbaland, as [...]

Lyor Cohen resigns from Warner Music after 8 years

Warner Music Group Recorded Music Chairman and CEO, Lyor Cohen, has resigned from the major. [...]

BMG hires Ronnback in Scandinavia

BMG Chrysalis Scandinavia has hired Lars Olov “Olle“ Rönnbäck as its new Director of Licensing [...]

‘Big’ Jon Platt quits EMI Publishing to join Warner/Chappell in US

Warner/Chappell as appointed ‘Big’ Jon Platt to the newly-created position of President, Creative – North [...]

Steve Perry signs publishing deal with UMPG

Journey frontman and lead songwriter Steve Perry has signed a global exclusive publishing administration agreement [...]

Burt Bacharach sub-publishing deal secured by BMG in Italy

BMG Italy has inked a sub-publishing deal for Italy with Burt Bacharach. Bacharach has won [...]

Billy Joel signs worldwide publishing deal with Rondor and UMPG

Rondor Music and its parent company, Universal Music Publishing, have signed an exclusive worldwide publishing [...]

IFPI bags US Copyright guru Carson as legal boss

David O. Carson, the General Counsel of the US Copyright Office, is joining international recorded [...]

BMG buys Fred Alhert Music catalogue business

BMG Chrysalis North America has snapped up the Fred Alhert Music Catalogue. The catalogue has been administered [...]

Imagem strikes JV with Cantora in US

Imagem Music has signed a JV deal for a new publishing company with New York [...]

Torrent site Demonoid shut down

The Demonoid Torrent service, a prominent channel for the distribution of infringing content worldwide, has [...]

Warner/Chappell buys music rights to Miramax movies

Warner/Chappell has acquired the masters and publishing rights for all film music owned by Miramax. [...]