The independent music publisher SONGS is going up for sale, with the majors like Warner, Sony and Universal likely keeping their eyes peeled. SONGS music publishing are responsible for some of the world’s biggest artists…
Following monumental deals with the 3 major labels Spotify’s head of video and podcast has left as part of a “shift in content strategy”. Spotify’s head of videos and podcasts, Tom Calderone, is leaving the…
Spotify have secured the 3rd major label allowing them to stream all of the top music owned by the 3 majors; Sony, Universal, and now Warner. It’s been a long time coming but Spotify have…
Warner Music was sold for $2.6 billion in 2004, and now roughly ten years later WMG have made more than that in 7 months. So if you haven’t noticed music streaming is massive, so massive in…
It’s been 5 months since Spotify reached the half a million mark for paid subscribers and they’ve already passed 60 million. Spotify have announced their latest milestone, surpassing 60 million subscribers paying for their Premium…
One of the biggest controversies with music’s newly dominating platform, streaming, is its royalties to artists – but how much do they actually pay? It’s a common complaint that streaming services don’t pay out enough,…
Tesla look to expand beyond cars and spaceships as talks with figures and labels in the music industry about a music streaming service. According to music industry sources renowned car-makers Tesla have spoken with all…
UK startup MelodyVR just closed a successfully large round of funding to enhance virtual reality experiences based around music. After a new funding round raised £5 million ($6.5 million) the UK-based startup wasted no time…
The giant Russian social network VKontakte (VK) are taking on Spotify and Apple Music with the launch of their new music streaming service. After almost a year since they revealed their upcoming music streaming service,…
BMG’s CEO – Hartwig Masuch says it’s artist take more than 75% of all online streaming revenue and that major labels need to address the situation that other artist’s are still receiving nothing from online…