Author archives: Tim Ingham

Sony makes major hip-hop move in Germany, inking Selfmade deal and hiring Elvir Omerbegovic

Omerbegovic named President of Urban Music, Sony Music Germany
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Record labels are spending more and more on signing (and paying) artists…

How the record business’s new-age economics are really starting to show
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Universal holds preliminary sale talks with Tencent – but is slow deal progress a danger sign?

Bloomberg report says ‘some private equity investors balk at the high price and slow pace of the deal’
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Sofar Sounds raises $25m to help ‘scale the artist-fan connection globally’

Raise is being led by Battery Ventures and Union Square Ventures
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‘Creativity is a muscle. It must be worked out. It must be pushed.’

Geffen boss Neil Jacobson on A&R, talking fast, the death of the album and much more
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Merck Mercuriadis’s Hipgnosis Songs Fund buys Jamie Scott catalog

‘Jamie Scott has been the UK’s most consistent hitmaker of the last 10 years.’
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After Spotify’s launch in India, how is its global expansion progressing?

An in-depth look at how Spotify performed in Q1 in terms of users and subscribers around the world
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Sony Music to deliver ‘Real Time’ royalty data to artists, and enable monthly cash withdrawals

‘Real Time Royalties’ and ‘Cash Out’ set to make life much easier for Sony acts
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