Music Publishing News Roundup 1.12.14: Sony/ATV, Deezer, New Stats & More
Sony has planned a possible sale of its music publishing division according to recently hacked Sony emails. The emails from Sony CFO, Kenichro Yoshida commented on the instability of the busines. Continue reading
Universal Music Launches Lawsuit Against Companies Distributing Mixtapes To Prisoners
Universal Music filed a complaint with the US district court in California against companies advertising and distributing care packages to prisoners that include unauthorized mixtapes of their artists in 40. Continue reading
Music Tech Accelerator Project Music Names First 8 Startups
Nashville based music and technology accelerator Project Music has named its inaugural class of 8 music tech startups. A partnership of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center and Country Music Association, each Project. Continue reading
UMG CEO Lucien Grainge Pledges To “Transfrom The Business” In Year End Letter To Staff [Full Text]
In a year end memo to staff, Universal Music Group CEO Lucien Grainge laid out his vision of what he believes the world's largest music company music do to survive and. Continue reading
Bitcoin for Rockstars: How Cryptocurrency Can Revolutionize The Music Industry
By D.A. Wallach, Recording Artist, Investor, Artist in Residence @ Spotify. This article originally appeared on DAWallach.com There is an incredibly boring problem in the music industry for which Bitcoin. Continue reading
Asia-Pacific Primed for Electronic Music Explosion
Guest post by Hisham Dahud - artist, producer, and the Digital Strategey Director of Fame House Without a doubt, electronic music culture has exploded to almost unfathomable heights. With roots in North America,. Continue reading
Soundcloud To Join $1 Billion Startup Club With New Funding Round
Music and audio sharing platform Soundloud is in talks to add $150 million in funding at a $1.2 billion valuation. The new round would more than double the $123 million. Continue reading
Apple, Beats Exec Jimmy Iovine Adds Live Nation Board Director To His Résumé
Jimmy Iovine is extending his already powerful reach to another corner of the music business. Concert and ticketing giant Live Nation has appointed the former lnterscope label boss, Beats Music. Continue reading
Russell Simmons Discusses New Era of Music Industry
In a recent interview with Grammy U and All Def Digital, Def Jams' Russell Simmons spoke about the recent shift in the music industry – a shift he believes has taken. Continue reading
Sony Rethinking Value Of Free Music Streaming
Taylor Swift's decision to pull all of her music off Spotify is causing ripples across the music industry and unsurprisingly become the topic of executive suite discussions at major music. Continue reading
Universal Music Joins $1.3M VIDA Seed Round
San Francisco-based socially conscious e-commerce platform VIDA has closed a $1.3 million seed funding round led by Google Ventures, The Valley Fund and Universal Music Group. VIDA discovers artists from. Continue reading
