Music Business News
Chris Giansante named ole’s GM of Administration
Toronto-based independent rights management company ole has appointed Chris Giansante as its General Manager of [...]
Ed Averdieck becomes Chairman of CueSongs, Christina Vaughan named new CEO
CueSongs, which licenses commercial music for use in digital and online media, has hired Christina [...]
Jay Z’s streaming service is expanding into 22 new markets
High-quality music streaming service Tidal – recently purchased by Jay Z’s investment group – will [...]
Cooking Vinyl backs new UK artist management venture
Cooking Vinyl has partnered with veteran manager John Black to launch London-based Black Gold Music [...]
Streaming is even more popular in Sweden than we thought
The IFPI in Sweden has adjusted a few of its 2014 figures for accuracy’s sake [...]
Pandora: We’ve paid $1.2bn to music industry
Pandora says that it’s now paid $1.2bn to music rightsholders – with $439m shelled out [...]
Pandora has lost $100m since 2011
Controversial streaming radio platform Pandora has posted a net loss of US $30.4m for 2014 [...]
Rhapsody now has 2.5m subscribers, but may have lost $15m in 2014
Streaming service Rhapsody lost somewhere in the region of $15m during 2014, according to MBW [...]
Gregg Nadel named new GM of Elektra Records
Atlantic Records A&R veteran Gregg Nadel has been appointed in the newly created position of [...]
Major labels license free music sharing app
The major labels have licensed a new free streaming music app in the US, which [...]
Kim Kardashian mobile game makes $14m a month – and now Katy Perry’s getting one
The developer behind the Kim Kardashian: Hollywood mobile video game – which turned over $43m [...]
Vevo tops 10bn views in January
Online music video platform Vevo has clocked up more than 10 billion monthly views for [...]
Believe’s Zimbalam platform surpasses 100k users
Believe Digital‘s Zimbalam DIY digital distribution service has surpassed 100,000 users worldwide. Zimbalam was launched [...]
Apple music streaming will be cheaper than Spotify Premium, here in the summer with ‘deep integration’ of Beats – report
Apple‘s streaming music service is nearly with us. It won’t carry Beats branding and will [...]
As Sony scraps its streaming music service, what now for its creator?
Last week’s news that Spotify was to take over streaming music duties on Sony’s PlayStation [...]