Music Business News

YouTube Music Key launch delayed until September

The public launch of YouTube‘s subscription streaming service, Music Key,  has been delayed until mid-September. [...]

Sweden’s Eurovision win celebrated by Warner Music

Warner Music Sweden is hoping that its signing Måns Zelmerlöw can become a truly international [...]

The 10 funniest quotes from the Ivor Novello Awards 2015

It’s a very worthy and historic awards ceremony, the Ivor Novellos. But in its most [...]

Sony/ATV is now a frontline record label (sort of)

Music publishing giant Sony/ATV can now claim to be a bona fide frontline record label: [...]

Hype Machine culls music blogs being scammed by labels

Hype Machine, one of the most influential music sites in the world, has banned blogs [...]

Managers react to leaked Sony and Spotify contract

A host of music managers have signed an open letter (which you can read here) [...]

Quality Control Music signs JV with Universal’s Motown/Capitol

Quality Control Music (QCM), the successful hip-hop label based in Atlanta, has entered into a [...]

Jack White: Tidal is fairer on artists than Spotify and YouTube

Tidal has faced a bit of a backlash since its launch for being elitist and [...]

Did Spotify just become a record label?

Spotify‘s much-anticipated press conference in New York yesterday brought an avalanche of announcements – revamping [...]

Ministry Of Sound’s Soapbox merges with 360 Agency

Sydney-based talent agency Soapbox Artists has merged with Melbourne’s 360 Agency – a move which [...]

Meet Spotify’s answer to Apple’s Zane Lowe. There’s three of them.

Much has been made of Apple‘s poaching of Zane Lowe and, of course, a number [...]

Martin Mills, Amy Dietz and Darius Van Arman elected to A2IM Board

Amy Dietz (EVP & General Manager, INgrooves),Darius Van Arman (Co-Founder & Co-Owner, Secretly Group ) [...]

Deezer adds 20,000 podcasts to its service

Eight months after it acquired US talk radio company Stitcher, France’s Deezer has added 20,000 [...]

Sweden’s Cosmos Music acquires Scandinavian Songs

Cosmos Music has acquired Scandinavian Songs – one of the leading independent music publishing companies [...]

The inventor of Google Maps wants to change the way you listen to music

Remember the intriguing story of the Google Maps co-creator who quit his plush job at [...]