French data company Music Story has appointed Jérôme Davant as Chief Business Officer. He reports to Music Story CEO Jean-Luc Biaulet. Davant joins from influencer marketing...
International data standards-setting organisation DDEX has published of its Musical Work Right Share Notification Standard (MWN) Version 1.3, a standard that fulfils a variety of communication...
Copyright protection platform Cosynd has entered into a partnership with US music rights society BMI to provide the 1.4 members — songwriters, composers and publishers —...
Chris Whiteley has been appointed Managing Director of Northern Europe at Spotify. He joins from Netflix where he served as Managing Director, Business Development in London....
Assets and catalogue management platform OpenPlay has launched OpenPlay Reach, a new service designed to support the seamless end-to-end delivery, distribution, management and monetisation of music and...
The Music Fights Fraud Alliance (MFFA) has appointed Michael Lewan as its first Executive Director. Lewan will oversee the Alliance’s strategic initiatives and operations from Washington,...
Universal Music Group (UMG) has official adopted the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) through a partnership with the ISNI International Agency (ISNI-IA). The ISNI-IA is the...
Music data provider Muzooka and the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM), which represents over 600 independent record labels, have partnered to launch the Independent Radio...
Spotify's longest-running original recorded music franchise, Spotify Singles, has officially surpassed 10 billion collective streams worldwide, since the programme launched in 2016, according to the streaming...
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has launched The Official Southeast Asia Charts, a regional hub housing the official weekly music charts for six...
