Music Business

Indian music streaming company Saavn has secured $100 million in a new funding round led by Tiger Global Management –...

Universal Music Publishing has signed an exclusive publishing administration agreement with SACM (Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de México), the...

Physical album sales might have fallen across America in the first half of 2015, but independent retailers are bucking the...

Sirius XM, the US-based satellite radio giant, doesn’t consider Spotify or other music services to be true competitors – and...

The UK’s influential new music magazine, NME, will take on the likes of Shortlist from mid-September by going free.The move...

Microsoft has rebranded its Xbox Music app as ‘Groove Music’, promising a catalogue of over 40m tracks and ‘music for...

Apple Music is a week old, and has started disseminating its streaming data to record companies.But where is that data...

Ministry of Sound has signed an exclusive and long-lasting contract with Arvato Replication to produce discs for the global market.Ministry,...

Warner Music has launched a new record label in Japan, Wanna Goma Records, in partnership with Goma Studio Inc.The label...

Rihanna has become the biggest-selling singles artist of the digital age in the US, surpassing more than 100 million Gold...

UK-based independent music and merchandise distribution powerhouse Plastic Head has opened its third on-site fulfillment centre.Ranked as the seventh largest...

The Agency Group (TAG) has acquired US-based boutique EDM agency Autonomous Music.As part of the deal, Autonomous founder Chris Richards...

Sony Music Entertainment Australia has appointed Ryan Wilson to the role of Director, Electronic Music.Wilson (pictured) is responsible for identifying...

BMG has agreed the acquisition of all the rights in the seminal Buddy Holly catalogue, controlled by his widow Maria...

The Music Futures Conference will return to the UK on Thursday, November 12 at a new venue – the Sage...