Music Business News
Canada: Taylor Swift, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran amongst 2014’s bestselling albums
Taylor Swift was the only artist to sell more than 300,000 copies of a single [...]
Italy: Recorded music business grows again in 2014 as downloads fall 15%
The Italian recorded music industry’s revenues grew by about 4% to €122 million in 2014, [...]
Spirit Music Group to administer Henry Mancini catalogue in US
Spirit Music Group is to administer the music publishing catalog of Henry Mancini for North [...]
Dean James adds £20m to Sixth Group’s acquisition warchest
MBW understands that acquisitive UK-based music company Sixth PLC has raised an unconditional £20m debt [...]
Sony’s Doug Morris to talk ‘lessons learned’ at Midem 2015
Doug Morris, CEO of Sony Music Entertainment, is to deliver a keynote interview at Midem [...]
Indies aim to chase ‘safe harbour’ out of the EU
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Tidal grows into five more EU territories
Norway-based high-definition streaming platform Tidal has added five new European countries: Ireland, Finland, the Netherlands, [...]
Music piracy has been ‘virtually eliminated’ in Norway
The latest full-year music sales stats out of Norway show that the Scandinavian country’s revenues [...]
Rob Hallett’s Robomagic on the hunt for publishing acquisitions
Former AEG President Rob Hallett has unveiled his new multifaceted music business Robomagic. In addition [...]
BMG acquires Tiempo Real Entertainment as it strikes Darlalata deal in Spain
BMG has struck a new wide-ranging publishing deal with Javier Tomás, the General Manager of [...]
Eventbrite expands into Berlin, passes £1bn ticket processing milestone
Self-service ticketing platform Eventbrite processed £1 billion ($1.5 billion) in gross ticket sales across the [...]
Ticketmaster Germany secures König Pilsener Arena contract
Ticketmaster Germany has been appointed as the official ticketing services provider for the 12,650 capacity [...]
Italy: Pink Floyd, One Direction, Coldplay in Top 10 albums of 2014
Sono Innocente (‘I Am Innocent’) by Vasco Rossi was the biggest selling album of 2014 [...]
US Association of Independent Publishers names new Board
The US Association of Independent Music Publishers has announced a new national Board of directors, [...]
Kobalt Neighbouring Rights signs Bruno Mars, Calvin Harris and Sam Smith
Kobalt Neighbouring Rights (KNR) has started 2015 by signing a clutch of modern global superstars, [...]