ERA has issued a pointed response to the IFPI’s Global Music Report and its focus on the impact of record labels on the recorded music market by highlighting the significance ...
Sony Music exec Dennis Kooker has predicted 2016 will be seen as a “tipping point” for the industry after it emerged the global recorded music market grew 5.9% to £15.7 ...
The global recorded music market grew by 5.9% in 2016 to $15.7 billion, according to the IFPI’s new Global Music Report, achieving its highest growth rate since the organisation began ...
The European Parliament has approved the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union and Canada.
The deal means that recorded music in Canada and the EU ...
Drake has been named global recording artist of 2016 by the IFPI.
The award recognises the biggest-selling act over the course of 12 months, and the Canadian rapper beat artists ...
Former IFPI comms director, Adrian Strain, has formed his own company in the form of Adrian Strain Communications. And the firm has already been hired as an external consultant to ...
The IFPI has issued a statement which says YouTube is not paying “anything like a fair rate” to the music industry.
The body, which represents the recording industry worldwide, released ...
What exactly does $4.5 billion buy a record label these days? Not a great deal, apparently, given the barren new music landscape that has become a defining factor of 2016. ...
A new IFPI report has found that record labels remain the largest investors in music, investing more than US$4.5 billion for A&R and marketing in 2015.
The new ‘Investing In ...
In the past few weeks, music industry global trade body IFPI and its US counterpart RIAA have been complaining of the increasing damage made to industry revenues by sites allowing ...
