Music Business News

Sony Music to distribute Red Bull Records worldwide outside Japan

Sony Music has reached global distribution deal with independent label Red Bull records for the [...]

The Backstreet Boys have sold more albums than The Beatles in Canada in past 20 years

Here’s a bit of trivia for a Friday: MBW has just found out what the [...]

Arvato quits UK music business as majors move elsewhere

It’s been a dominant force in physical entertainment distribution for years, but MBW has learnt [...]

Jay Z makes €50m bid to take on Spotify

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/jay-z-take-spotify/

iTunes: music, movie, TV and e-book sales drop 7%

The headline-grabbing story of Apple‘s quarter to the end of December 2014 is very much [...]

Alt-J, Caribou, Frankie Chavez and Sleaford Mods nominated for ‘European Mercury’

IMPALA has revealed its shortlist of nominees for the fifth edition of the IMPALA Album [...]

Google Play growing at ‘unprecedented speed’, reaches 58 countries

Google posted its fourth quarter results last night, with net profits hitting $4.76bn but revenues [...]

Sony scraps its own streaming service, partners with Spotify

Sony Network Entertainment International LLC (SNEI) will close its Music Unlimited streaming service across 19 [...]

[PIAS] switches from Arvato to Cinram in UK and Ireland

Third-party logistics company Cinram has signed a multi-year contract with independent music powerhouse [PIAS] to [...]

SoundExchange pays out $773m to artists and labels in 2014

US public performance collection society SoundExchange paid a record $773 million to recording artists and [...]

Germany’s !K7 teams up with anti-piracy group Audiolock

German label and music services company !K7 Records has inked a deal with anti-piracy group [...]

Johnny Tennander named Deputy MD of Sony/ATV Scandinavia

Sony/ATV Music Publishing has promoted Johnny Tennander to the position of Deputy Managing Director at [...]

Guvera officially acquires Blinkbox

Australian streaming platform Guvera has acquired Blinkbox Music from Tesco in a deal understood to [...]

Red Bull Records strikes deal to expand into India, China and South Korea

Red Bull Records has inked a new partnership with artist/label development firm Secret Signals to [...]

One Direction and Nicki Minaj song shares acquired by ole

Acquisitive Canadian rights management company ole has purchased the 2101 Songs catalogue from RedOne Productions, [...]