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Live Nation launches its own televised music awards in the US

Live Nation is launching its own televised awards ceremony in the US on October 1, [...]

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Music design and packaging specialist Modo has teamed up with Essential Music & Marketing to [...]

Sentric Music hires new staff including Ally McCrae

UK-based independent online music publisher Sentric Music has made several recruitments throughout its business including [...]

Warner posts net profit in Q2 as streaming income overtakes download

Warner Music Group Corp has posted a $19m net profit for its second fiscal quarter, [...]

Something strange is happening at Warner Music Group…

You’ll probably see a few headlines this morning about streaming income overtaking download revenue at [...]

Warner Bros Records boss Cameron Strang: 7 lessons from my career

Cameron Strang is one of the most powerful music executives on the planet. If you [...]

Redeye opens five new offices in global expansion

North Carolina-based Redeye has opened five new offices in Sydney, Australia; Berlin, Germany; Toronto, Canada; [...]

French digital distributor IDOL lands in UK market

IDOL, the French music company specialising in digital distribution and technology services, says it will [...]

PRS revenues drop £8m as it keeps bigger slice of publisher money

The percentage of total income spent on costs by PRS For Music went up in [...]

How Spotify can become profitable

Spotify‘s €1.08bn revenue haul in 2014 will have given Daniel Ek plenty of reason for [...]

Christian Tattersfield signs Kobalt deal for Good Soldier Songs

When Christian Tattersfield departed Warner Music UK in 2014 after almost five years as CEO, [...]

Canadian Industry Awards: Bruce Allen, Universal, Dine Alone win

The veteran manager of huge Canadian acts including Michael Buble and Bryan Adams, Bruce Allen [...]

Call for Canada to extend copyright for songwriters

CISAC, the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers, has expressed its disappointment that [...]

Turns out Spotify acquired The Echo Nest for just €50m

When Spotify bought out The Echo Nest in March last year, a pricetag was quickly [...]

Spotify revenues topped €1bn in FY2014 – but losses grew 77% to €165m

Spotify‘s revenues jumped 45% in FY2014 to over €1bn – but its operating losses also [...]