*Music Industry Insight
DEALS 🪄 Merlin has announced a new partnership with Audiomack, with a licensing deal covering the main streaming service and its in-built remixing tools. “Through Audiomack’s partnership with Merlin, we’re…
APPOINTMENTS 💡 Sony Music has appointed Harri Davies as Head of A&R at RCA Records UK. She joins from Concord Music Publishing. “I’m honoured to step into this role, at…
For some time now streaming has been the biggest generator of revenue for the music rights industry. In 2023 streaming accounted for 67.3% of global recorded music revenues. Buy the…
A lawsuit filed against US streaming service Pandora by the MLC is “a wild overreach” of the US mechanical rights collecting society’s remit. Or so says Pandora, in its response…
The BPI has published its annual ‘All About The Music’ report on the British record industry’s performance in the previous calendar year. The topline stat is that revenues grew by…
DEALS 🧊 Warner Chappell and ICE have expanded their partnership, with the music publisher set to move all of its online royalty processing in Europe to the licensing hub, which…
Last month the Labour Party announced that, if it forms the next UK government, it will put a price cap on the resale of tickets online. Last week, by pure…
DEALS ✂️ The Cutting Edge Group – which specialises in music for the media, wellbeing and live entertainment sectors – has raised $500 million debt refinancing, which will in part…
This week: Live Nation’s Rapino compelled to testify in Astroworld lawsuits; MPs demand progress on creator remuneration; Blur’s Rowntree leads class action lawsuit to sue PRS; Swift’s music back on…
On this week’s show we discuss the warning from UK politicians that there need to be “tangible steps to improve musicians’ remuneration and performer rights” by this time next year,…