Music Business News

Montana catalogue bought by BMG in Germany

The Montana Musikverlag master and publishing rights catalogue has been acquired by BMG. Regarded as [...]

Universal buys Eagle Rock Entertainment

Just 18 months after it closed the acquisition of EMI Music, Universal has got its [...]

Fatboy Slim catalogue is BMG’s as Skint sells up

Fatboy Slim’s multi-million selling catalogue of recordings has been snapped up by BMG as part [...]

Indie labels license Beats Music

Spotify rival Beats Music has signed a licensing deal with global independent label rights agency [...]

Ben Cook becomes Atlantic Records UK President

Asylum Records boss Ben Cook has been appointed President of Atlantic Records in the UK. [...]

Nokia MixRadio launches in China

Free platform Nokia MixRadio has launched in China – making it the first major streaming [...]

Kaz Kobayashi named Warner Japan CEO, Utsumi in as COO

Media veteran Kazuyuki (Kaz) Kobayashi has joined Warner Music Japan as its new Chief Executive [...]

Imagem signs deal with Brett Gurewitz’s Mothership

Imagem Publishing Group has signed a long-term publishing agreement representing the catalogues of Mothership Music [...]

Sylvia Rhone named President of Epic Records in US

Sylvia Rhone has been named President of Epic Records in the US. She will report [...]

US recorded music revenues flat in 2013 – RIAA report

US recorded music shipment revenues dipped slightly in 2013 by 0.3% to $7 billion, with [...]

Indian High Court enforces torrent site blackout

India’s High Court in Calcutta has passed a ruling requiring 387 Indian ISPs to block [...]

Cooking Vinyl unveils ‘publishing services’ model in US

The New York-based arm of the Cooking Vinyl Group, CV America, is offering clients a [...]

Dell founder’s group makes investment in Kobalt

MSD Capital, L.P., the private investment firm of Dell computers founder Michael S. Dell, has [...]

Spotify buys The Echo Nest to fuel discovery mechanism

Spotify has acquired music consumption intelligence company, The Echo Nest. The Echo Nest will continue [...]

ole acquires music rights to The Expendables, Rambo IV and more

Canada-born rights management company ole has acquired both the music publishing and audio master catalogue [...]