Music Business News

Warner/Chappell Production acquires news theme company

Warner/Chappell Production Music, Warner Music Group’s production music arm, has acquired the music assets of [...]

Spotify storms past 15m paying subscribers milestone

Spotify has attracted 2.5 million paying subscribers in under two months to reach yet another [...]

Pandora’s share price tumbles 50% in a year

The market cap value of controversial US online radio company Pandora has plummeted by more [...]

Rock music is twice as popular as pop in America – but R&B rules streaming

US music fans consumed twice as much rock music as pop music in 2014, according [...]

New Spanish chart counts streams, downloads and CD sales

Spain’s weekly Promusicae singles chart will now be compiled using a combination of data related [...]

Proper signs EU-wide partnership with H’Art Musik and Bertus Distribution

German distributor H’Art Musik Vertrieb GmbH and its Dutch partner Bertus Distribution have jointly signed [...]

Peter Thomas to run Carlin Music in Europe

Carlin Music’s EU boss David Japp left the publisher after 37 years in late December [...]

Radio, not YouTube, is still king of music discovery

We might live in an age of YouTube and Spotify being the go-to music players [...]

Actually, album sales are doing fine in America… so long as you’re not iTunes, Walmart or Target

One of MBW’s most popular articles this week has regarded the ‘Sad collapse of the [...]

US music fans now spend more on concerts than CDs, downloads and streaming combined

US consumers are now spending more  on tickets to live shows than they are on [...]

Is Universal fixing streaming’s transparency problem? Bono seems to think so…

In November last year, at a web summit in Dublin, U2 frontman Bono appeared to [...]

Most hit singles in the UK are by non-British artists

American and non-UK artists are claiming the majority of Britain’s biggest hits every year. That’s [...]

Deezer set to challenge Spotify in US after swooping for Muve

Spotify‘s main audio streaming rival, Paris-based Deezer, has acquired the assets of US music service [...]

Metropolis launches publishing division in UK

Metropolis, best known as the West London-based studio that has worked with artists including Queen, [...]

Ed Sheeran rules 2014 charts in Australia

Ed Sheeran had a 2014 to remember in Australia, emulating his success in the UK [...]