Music Business News

Universal loses digital artist rights case in Finland – more major lawsuits to follow?

A court in Finland has ordered Universal Music Group to remove two 1970s albums from [...]

Germany’s Echo Awards 2015: All the winners

German superstar Helene Fischer went home with four gongs at her home country’s biggest music [...]

Beatport launches free streaming music app

Beatport owner SFX Entertainment has expanded its recently-launched music streaming service into a mobile app [...]

Songwriters tell publishers: Not so fast over ASCAP and BMI

A global alliance of songwriters and composers has penned an open letter to US publishers, [...]

US distributor Redeye signs UK deal with Proper

US independent music distributor Redeye has signed a UK and Ireland partnership with Proper Distribution [...]

Pitbull launches Sirius XM channel

Armando Christian Perez, aka Pitbull, is launching his own channel on US satellite radio network [...]

Martin Bandier re-elected to ASCAP Board

Sony/ATV chief Martin Bandier is amongst 12 publishers to be re-elected to the board of [...]

CISAC pays tribute to former President Jean-Loup Tournier

The International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) has paid tribute to its [...]

Germany: 2.5m premium streaming users with ‘room for improvement’

Streaming is still in its infancy in Germany, despite revenue from the format jumping up [...]

Tidal set to expand into Germany and Australia

Tidal , the HQ music streaming service which will be officially owned by Jay Z [...]

Live Nation Labs co-founder Ethan Kaplan joins Gracenote

Music recognition and metadata company Gracenote has appointed Ethan Kaplan as its SVP and General [...]

The Orchard acquires royalty processing firm RoyaltyShare

Music and movie distribution company The Orchard – itself fresh from being fully acquired by [...]

Universal launches popularity contest on Spotify in Sweden

Universal Music is behind a new competition for unsigned artists in Sweden, which rewards the [...]

Age ratings implemented on online music videos in the UK

UK users of YouTube and Vevo will start to see BBFC age ratings appear on [...]

Forget Daniel Ek or Lucian Grainge: this man may have more impact on the music business this year than anyone

Mario Draghi might not have the Nordic cool of Daniel Ek, the cigar-assisted self-assurance of [...]