Superstars and music execs are celebrating the Biden/Harris win — but they're also keeping a close eye on how proposed tax plans could affect the current copyright acquisition frenzy
Universal, Sony and Warner appear to have curbed their spending in 2020 while boosting profits. But what happens when record labels need to ramp expenditure back up next year?
Hipgnosis Songs Fund just did its biggest deal yet, acquiring 33,000 song copyrights from Kobalt Music
She A&R'd the early years of Justin Bieber and signed a young Travis Scott. Now she's helping Warner Chappell build an international powerhouse of artists and songwriters
The investor-entrepreneur duo wants to rocket-launch the music industry's next Spotify
If you're thinking about indie artists only as "a loss leader to collect the identification of superstar artists, you're going about it all wrong," says the CEO of the fast-growing Downtown Music Holdings
Whether BTS got too much or too little from Big Hit's IPO, the group certainly got more than artists at other large music companies could dream of
The 89-year-old Jac Holzman — founder of Elektra Records, legend of the music industry, and tech pioneer — passes on his hard-won wisdom in a rare interview
Despite the big-money headlines, industry players are expressing serious concern about the long-term impact of the pandemic on music publishers and songwriters' income
Kanye West wants his rights back. Here are three reasons — tied to three different superstars — that his public rant against recording contracts could be way less far-fetched than it sounds
