Music Business

The A2IM Libera Awards returned to New York last week (June 25) to celebrate the best of the independent music...

One of the most popular articles on MBW this month was our description of the ‘5 big problems Apple Music...

When Alexander Ljung tells MBW that SoundCloud boasts a “larger scale than anything else out there”, he’s half right.The online...

Global Entertainment, the content creation arm of Ashley Tabor’s Global, is getting into the festivals business. It has acquired a...

The major labels plus ABKCO – the owner of classic Rolling Stones copyrights – have jointly been awarded $210m as part...

Live music bigwig Rob Hallett has thrown his backing behind independent UK festival Standon Calling, taking a position on the...

Merlin, the global digital rights agency representing 20,000 independent labels including the likes of Beggars Group, Cooking Vinyl, Domino, Epitaph,...

A couple more interesting nuggets of news regarding Apple Music have come MBW’s way four days ahead of its launch...

It looks like Apple has finally reached a settlement with the independents over Apple Music‘s free trial.The likes of Merlin,...

Spotify has beefed up its bid to become No.1 in terms of music audience intelligence, buying Seed Scientific.The purchase price...

The entire Australian music market, encompassing physical, digital and live, is heading for five flat years, according to the annual...

Now the indies (and Taylor Swift) have endorsed Apple Music, the great 2015 streaming war can officially kick off.And that...

Cécile Rap-Veber has been named Director of International Collections at French collection society SACEM – which represents over 153,000 songwriters,...

Google Play has ‘gone freemium’ in the US, launching an ad-supported digital radio service in a bid to attract more...

TIDAL has lost its second CEO in two months as Peter Tonstad exits the HD streaming company.The exec has told...