Music Business News

BMG completes Famous and Virgin Music catalogue acquisitions

BMG has concluded the acquisition from Sony/ATV Music Publishing and EMI Music Publishing of music [...]

Global Repertoire Database will be based in London

The global headquarters of the Global Repertoire Database (GRD) project will be based in London, [...]

Kevin Brown joins Spotify as EU label relations boss

Former EMI, BMG and Polygram exec Kevin Brown has joined Spotify in the newly-created role [...]

Sunny Chang named Universal Music China boss

Sunny Chang has been appointed as Universal Music‘s new Chairman and CEO for Greater China. [...]

Universal Music Publishing buys Criterion

Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) has fully acquired Criterion Music Corporation and its affiliated entities, [...]

Criterion Music fully acquired by Universal Music Publishing

Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) has acquired Criterion Music Corporation and its affiliated entities, including [...]

Eagle Rock’s Andy McIntyre joins Arising Artist

Eagle Rock Entertainment A&R Manager Andy McIntyre has left the company to become General Manager [...]

BMG completes Mute and Sanctuary buyouts

BMG has officially completed the acquisitions of recorded music catalogues Mute and Sanctuary from Universal [...]

Robbie Lear named GM of Warner’s Get In Latin America

Warner Music-owned artist services company Get In Latin America has appointed Robbie Lear as its [...]

Nick Raphael heads up Capitol Records UK

Capitol Records UK has officially launched at Universal Music, led by Nick Raphael as President. [...]

Kobalt hires Nestor Casonu as it plots Latin America expansion

Kobalt Music Group (Kobalt) has brought in Nestor Casonu, the former CEO of EMI Latin [...]

Jay Z’s Roc Nation signs Universal partnership

Roc Nation, the US-based entertainment company founded by Shawn ‘Jay Z’ Carter has entered into [...]

Hilco rescues HMV UK in £50m deal

Restructuring specialist Hilco Capital has swooped for debt-stricken retailer HMV in the UK, for a [...]

SACEM and UMPG sign global YouTube agreement

France’s Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM) has signed a landmark licensing [...]

Imagem Music opens LA office, Shari Reich in as Director of A&R

Imagem Music has opened its first office in Los Angeles and hired Shari Reich as [...]