For 10 years now, Merlin has been fighting for independent labels’ digital rights – and it’s still growing. Music Week sits down with CEO Charles Caldas to talk through a ...
Leading management firm Prolifica is launching its own label – with two of its biggest artists as its first signings.
As exclusively revealed in this week’s print edition of Music ...
First Sony sold a chunk of its Spotify shares. Then Warner. And now Music Week can exclusively reveal that independent labels rights body Merlin has cashed in its ...
New PIAS chief creative officer Jane Third is to launch her own imprint under the indie group’s umbrella.
The new imprint is called Research and Third will run it alongside ...
BMG CEO Hartwig Masuch has joined the growing chorus demanding that the major labels share the proceeds from any sale of Spotify stock with the indie labels and artists they ...
Worldwide Independent Network chair/CEO Alison Wenham has called for more independent labels to go through independent distribution, rather than through major labels or major-owned distribution companies, claiming such a move ...
This week, one of the UK's favourite modern indie labels, Chess Club, celebrates its 10th birthday.
To mark the occasion, the label is hosting a pop-up shop at The Old ...
No one really wants to say it out loud, but the numbers don’t lie. UK and global figures for music consumption both send the same message: the good times are ...
The Because Group has snapped up another former Parlophone Label Group (PLG) catalogue, Music Week can exclusively reveal – as the clock continues to tick down on Warner Music Group’s ...
Independent music is responsible for a 30% share in the Australian music market; new research commissioned by AIR (The Australian Independent Record Labels Association) has shown.
Launched at BigSound festival ...
