Music Business News

ReverbNation launches music publishing operation with Sentric

Emerging artist platform ReverbNation has launched a new division, CONNECT Songs, that will provide publishing [...]

Mark Ronson, Manic Street Preachers PR firm Ooh Brilliant to close

UK-based music PR firm Ooh Brilliant, which has worked with artists including Mark Ronson, Bloc [...]

PledgeMusic hires Scott Hueston as Head of Artist Solutions in North America

Music pre-sale platform PledgeMusic has appointed Scott Hueston as its new Head of Artist Solutions, [...]

Guvera hits 10m users worldwide, 3m in India

Music streaming service Guvera has surpassed a 10 million user milestone worldwide. It’s attracted over [...]

Universal may hold key to Spotify’s $400m injection

The list of investors behind Spotify‘s imminent new funding round of $400m (€373m) has been [...]

Norway plan to switch off FM radio will ‘save €24m a year’

The Government in Norway will switch off its FM radio stations for good in January [...]

Global recorded music revenues grew 0.7% last year… excluding Japan

Last week we learnt that the revenue haul of the worldwide recorded music industry last [...]

Irwin Robinson to collect Global Music Publishing award at Midem

The International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) will hand the Ralph Peer II Award for [...]

Vampire Weekend’s Baio signs to Glassnote for solo project

Daniel Glass‘s Glassnote Entertainment Group has signed London-based Baio on a worldwide label deal. Baio [...]

Former EMI boss Roger Faxon to join Pandora’s Board

Former EMI Group CEO Roger Faxon is to be elected onto the Board of Directors [...]

UK promoter to launch gigs at cricket grounds this summer

Live music shows will be introduced to county cricket audiences this summer across the UK, [...]

Vessel gets $57.5m in new funding to help take on YouTube

Vessel, the online video platform supported by Warner and Universal which is attempting to charge [...]

Malaysian radio network Astro launches $4-per-month Spotify rival

Astro, the company behind hitz.fm, ERA fm, MIX fm and other popular radio stations in [...]

President of YouTube monetisation site AdRev exits after 8 months

The President of YouTube monetisation service and multi-channel network AdRev has parted ways with the [...]

PPL international revenue payouts top £14m in Q1

UK-based collection society PPL made its largest ever distribution of international revenue to members in [...]