PIAS founders Kenny Gates and Michel Lambot (pictured) have announced their decision to sell the remaining shares they hold in the company to Universal Music Group.
The market-leading major and ...
IMPALA has hit out at TikTok after the platform opted not to renew its licensing deal with Merlin.
Just eight months after its huge public row with Universal Music Group ...
The BPI has revealed that the 50th edition of its independent label member meetings will feature Jeff Smith, head of music for BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music.
Smith, who ...
Saudi Arabia stunned the sporting world this week when its Public Investment Fund financed a merger between its LIV series and the PGA.
It follows other examples of the country ...
Silvia Montello has just taken over as chief exec of the Association Of Independent Music (AIM).
Here, in an extended version of our Music Week magazine interview, the former boss ...
Geoff Taylor has been a familiar figure in the UK music industry for more than 15 years.
As chief executive of the BPI, BRITs & Mercury Prize, he was often ...
AIM’s newly-appointed CEO Silvia Montello has spoken to Music Week about the performance of the independent sector.
Montello takes over at AIM at the end of this month. It follows ...
The Association of Independent Music (AIM) has appointed Silvia Montello as its new CEO.
Montello has 30 years of experience in marketing, commercial and strategic operations. She will take over ...
Universal Music Group has taken a 49% stake in indie giant PIAS.
The announcement, which sees UMG acquiring a 49% shareholding in PIAS, follows the formation of the “unconventional” strategic ...
Independent record labels’ share of the UK recorded music market is on course to grow for a fifth consecutive year in 2022, according to new analysis from the BPI. ...
