When Merlin started 12 years ago, it was a small club of mostly European labels executives who had decided to aggregate their individual catalogues to achieve...
By Emmanuel Legrand In part 2 of the interview with Merck Mercuriadis, we discuss his vision for Hipgnosis, the company he founded less than three years...
Merck Mercuriadis (Photo: Jill Furmanovsky) A few weeks ago, when asked if he was interested in assets from Kobalt, Merck Mercuriadis responded with a smile. Earlier...
FUGA was launched in Amsterdam in 2006, when iTunes was the dominant platform for downloads and streaming was in its infancy. Since then, it has become...
In this interview with Emmanuel Legrand, the President and CEO of the Washington, DC-based National Music Publishers' Association, David Israelite, talks about the impact of the...
By Emmanuel Legrand The coronavirius pandemic will "impact royalty collections in 2020 and into 2021, and -- I would not be surprised -- into 2022." This...
Kris Ahrend, CEO The MLC, has the unique task to set up and launch the first new collective management organisation created by law in the United...
The UK music market had a great year in 2019, marking the fifth consecutive year of growth. With more than 114 billion music streams recorded in...
Songtrust, the global royalty collection platform owned by US independent music company Downtown Music Holdings, has had a stellar year 2019 with milestone growth. During the...
Charles Caldas, who has led Merlin for the past 12 years, will be leaving the independent music companies' global digital rights licensing agency at the end...
