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Rihanna has landed her 57th entry in the US Billboard Top 100, with Sex With Me coming in at #97. She now ties with Madonna as fourth among women to stack up so many hits. Billboard showed that since…

Sir Paul McCartney is the most successful album act of all time in the UK. He s notched up a staggering 22 #1 albums since the early 1960s. Across a 50+ year career, he has spent an equally…

Apple Music is proposing to significantly increase songwriter royalty rates from streaming services. In a private filing to the US Copyright Royalty Board, it suggests that the royalty rate for…

Drake continues to hit new milestones in both the US and UK charts. In the US, both the Views album and One Dance (ft WizKid and Kyla) spent their tenth (non-consecutive) weeks at #1 on the Billboard…

After nine years of operation, French music subscription service Deezer finally entered the US market yesterday. It has only had a limited presence in the world s largest music market, sold to AT T…

Figures crunched by MIDiA Research show that the amount of YouTube/ Vevo streams jumped 132% over the last year to a staggering 751 billion. However YouTube s pay out to artists and record labels in…

The UK Music Diversity Taskforce, set up last September by the UK Music trade organisation, has launched its first industry-wide workforce diversity survey to discover how bad the problem is.…

Rdio, the US music streaming service that went bankrupt last November and had its key assets purchased by Pandora, is taking the fight back to Sony Music. It is pushing for an investigation of Sony…

As competition in the music streaming sphere heats up, so too does the trade war between Apple Music and market leader Spotify. Spotify, while growing its figures, must certainly be concerned that…

Michael Jackson sold 750 million albums for Sony Music Entertainment (35 million of those in the first 12 months after his death). Yet the singer is currently causing the company grief on two…

One Direction took out Best Live Act for the second time at the O2 Silver Clef Awards in London last Friday. The category, sponsored by Ticketmaster, was based on public vote, and One Direction had…

Submissions to the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice s review of music licensing, and more specifically the consent decrees which bind the country s two main collection societies,…