Music Business News
Spotify’s Daniel Ek launches conference for ‘Brilliant Minds’. Tickets cost $2,900.
Spotify founder Daniel Ek has teamed up with Ash Pournouri, manager of Avicii and CEO [...]
Metropolis Studios signs Le Third Floor deal to expand European presence
Metropolis has partnered with London-based creative media consultancy Le Third Floor in a deal aimed [...]
PledgeMusic launches Emerging Artist Series with Swatch
The world might be going mad for Apple Watch, but PledgeMusic has teamed with a [...]
Americans really don’t want to pay for music in their cars
The Holy Grail for the future of the music business, we’re told, is billions of [...]
Grooveshark faces possible $736m payout as Universal damages trial kicks off
The owner of notorious streaming site Grooveshark, Escape Media, will come face-to-face with Universal Music [...]
Jay Z accuses Tidal rivals of ‘smear campaign’ as platform hits 770k subscribers
Having faced a battering in the media and the music industry in the three weeks [...]
Holland’s CTM signs Dirty Dancing, Little Feat, Steve Miller deals
CTM Publishing has signed a sub-publishing deal for the back catalogue of US rock band [...]
Universal Music Group Distribution brand closes, functions re-homed
Universal Music Group Distribution (UMGD) is no more – as Universal reorganises its central sales [...]
Warner owner Len Blavatnik is Britain’s richest billionaire
Len Blavatnik, whose Access Industries acquired Warner Music Group for US $3.3bn in 2011, is [...]
Don’t spend it all at once, artists: Pandora is paying out $0.0001 more per stream than it was last year
Pandora has revealed that its royalty payments to SoundExchange, the US licensing body which collects [...]
UK’s independent festivals contribute £1bn to economy in four years
Independent festivals contributed an estimated £1bn to the UK economy over the four-year period between [...]
As Norway prepares to switch off FM radio, local networks protest
Earlier this week, the Norwegian Ministry Of Culture announced its plan to switch off FM [...]
Songwriters suffer from ‘nonsensical disparity’ of streaming payments… says a Grammy-winning artist
Songwriters aren’t getting a fair share of payouts from streaming giants like Spotify and Pandora. [...]
Pandora loses 2m listeners and $48m in three months
US digital radio platform Pandora‘s active listener tally dropped by 2 million people in the [...]
Sony/ATV signs Afrika Bambaataa outside North America
Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa has signed a long-term, worldwide publishing deal (excluding North America) with [...]