Music Business News

Spotify ad revenue jumped 53% in Q1

Spotify saw a 53% increase in ad revenue year-over-year in Q1 2015, according to internal [...]

Tidal CEO out as Team Jay Z wields axe

The CEO of streaming service Tidal, Andy Chen, has parted ways with the company barely [...]

Doug Morris, Julio Iglesias honoured by Berklee College Of Music

Berklee College of Music president Roger H. Brown will present Julio Iglesias, Doug Morris, Harvey [...]

Nine Live and Ticketek sold for AUS $640m

One of Australia’s largest live entertainment companies, Nine Live, has been sold in full to [...]

Man who cost the majors millions launches Pandora rival 6Seconds

The founder and former CEO of MP3Tunes, Michael Robertson, has created a new digital music [...]

Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Awards nominees revealed

The nominees have been announced for the Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Awards – with [...]

Believe Digital fully acquires rival Tunecore

Believe Digital has fully acquired a key rival – digital music distribution and publishing administration [...]

Spotify appoints Global Head Of Publisher Relations

Spotify has appointed James Duffett-Smith as Global Head of Publisher Relations. In this new role, [...]

Les Miserables firm expands into Europe, Australia

The company which represents and licenses the performance rights to theatre giants like The Lion [...]

20% of people online are music pirates – but most know it’s theft

New evidence suggests that one fifth of all fixed-line internet users across the world regularly [...]

Midem Artist Accelerator shortlist announced

Midem has announced the 14 finalists of its inaugural Midem Artist Accelerator – the programme [...]

Universal launches new YouTube label in Australia

Universal Music Australia is launching a new label imprint in conjunction with Boom Collective – [...]

EarMUSIC signs US distribution deal with Entertainment One

The international record company of Edel Group, earMUSIC has signed an exclusive deal with Entertainment [...]

Eric Mackay appointed Head Of Digital, Europe at Warner/Chappell

Eric Mackay has been hired as Head of Digital, Europe at Warner/Chappell Music, based in [...]

‘Major labels are paying artists more generously than they used to’

Ask many professional music artists about their income and they’ll tell you that the transition [...]