Author archives: Tim Ingham

PMR’s Ben and Daniel Parmar join Virgin EMI as Co-Presidents of A&R

‘Ben and Daniel are taste dictators who will add further cultural and creative vigour to Virgin EMI.’
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‘I believe that we’re going to have to see huge changes in how record labels run their sync businesses.’

Alicen Schneider, who heads up the creative music division and West Coast music operations for NBCUniversal Television, talks sync
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TuneCore is now collecting nearly $1m a day for its independent artists – who just earned over $500m within a year-and-a-half

Company says that it earned over $300m for its artists in 2018 alone
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Universal is becoming more global – but, like the record industry, it’s actually becoming more American too

How the United States has increased its financial power in the global record industry in the past few years
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Nearly 40,000 tracks are now being added to Spotify every single day

That’s the equivalent of 280,000 songs a week, or around 1.2 million tracks per calendar month.
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‘The music industry’s in for a really interesting 10 years…’

Various Artists’ Dave Bianchi and John Dawkins on their successes and professional journey to date
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Sony Music streaming revenues grew 8.2% last quarter, as overall sales hit $946m

Sony Music’s streaming revenues climbed 8.2% year-on-year in the three months to end of March 2019, as the company’s total recorded music sales reached $946.3m. The latter number represented a YoY decline of 6.5%, and was hampered by a 36.8…

All-time Shazam record smashed by Florence + The Machine track in Game Of Thrones

Florence Welch’s track was ‘Shazamed’ approximately 300,000 times worldwide within 24 hours
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