Latest Industry: Sony Music, Eagles, OneRepublic, Backstreet Boys, RIAA, Marilyn Manson, 123 Music, More…

Sony Music starts distributing money from sale of Spotify shares. Sony Music has started distributing the $750 million in profit collected from the sale of its Spotify shares.  Per Variety, the label will disburse payments to its artists and labels bas…

Latest Industry: Article 13, Aretha Sales, Stormzy, Amazon, Google, Columbia, More…

Pirate Party representative pushes for open protests to the Copyright Directive. Julia Reda, Pirate Party representative in the European Parliament, plans to get Copyright Directive opponents “to the streets.”  On her blog, she lambasted the music indu…

BMG Scores Richard Ashcroft’s Upcoming Solo Album, Natural Rebel

Iconic British rocker Richard Ashcroft announced on Wednesday the upcoming release of his first solo album in two years. Natural Rebel will be released on October 19 under Ashcroft’s personal imprint, RPA, through ambitiously-expanding BMG.  To c…

Irving Azoff’s GMR Faces a Serious Legal Setback Against US Radio Stations

Expect the bitter fight between Irving Azoff’s Global Music Rights and the Radio Music Licensing Committee to continue dragging on. Several years ago, influential manager Irving Azoff had an idea.  Why not start a performance rights organization (PRO) …

Latest Industry: Google vs. Amazon, NZ vs. Viagogo, Cinq, BBC, Spotify, Live Nation, More…

Google creeps up on Amazon in the global smart speaker market. Strategy Analytics has found that Amazon shipped 4.8 million smart speakers in the second quarter of 2018.  The company now has a 41% market share.  Google shipped 3.2 million in the same p…

Latest Industry: Pandora, Spotify, T-Mobile, AdRev, Sony Live, Warner/Chappell, Coachella, More…

Seven years after launching its IPO, Pandora’s cash burn reaches $407 million. Bloomberg examined 150 technology companies in the US to discover their burn rate and found Pandora Media has “burned cash for years.”  The company has had “cumulative annua…