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Buma/Stemra outsources admin in new ICE agreement

In a bid to stay on the right side of the much-debated European Directive on [...]

Rebecca Allen becomes Decca MD in UK

Rebecca Allen is now one of the few women around the world to lead a [...]

Cooking Vinyl Group backs new royalty collection company

Cooking Vinyl Group has been revealed as the co-founder of a new company designed to [...]

Spotify net losses hit €58m in 2013

Spotify’s net losses in 2013 hit €58 million, according to new figures from holding company [...]

Rammstein albums added to Spotify

The entire back catalogue of heavy rock band Rammstein has been added to Spotify by [...]

Ticketmaster opens office in Poland

Poland is set to welcome a new office from one of the biggest companies in [...]

Sony’s Denis Handlin named chairman of IFPI Asia-Pacific

Denis Handlin has been appointed as chairman of the Asia/Pacific Regional Board of global recorded [...]

Now Spotify turns a profit in France

Spotify’s Paris-based French comapny turned a profit for the first time in 2013 – following [...]

BMG grows presence in China with Giant Jump JV

BMG‘s office in China has created a new global rights management joint venture with Giant [...]

BMG buys US rock label Vagrant Records

BMG Chrysalis US has announced that it has acquired leading LA-based indie rock label Vagrant [...]

Ann Tausis named Kobalt Neighbouring Rights MD

Kobalt Neighbouring Rights (KNR) has appointed Ann Tausis as its new Managing Director. Tausis’s London-based [...]

Tencent strikes deal with Warner Music in China

Tencent Holdings Limited has signed a wide-ranging agreement with Warner Music Group, which includes the [...]

‘Taylor Swift is absolutely right’: Spotify flies past 50m users worldwide

Spotify has steamed past the 50m registered user barrier, with 12.5 million people now paying [...]

Richard Conlon becomes Special Advisor to UMPG

Richard Conlon, former Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Communications & New Media for Broadcast [...]

Spotify income now 13% higher than iTunes for Kobalt in EU

Kobalt is now firmly established as one of the biggest music publishers on earth – [...]