Amidst the continuing decline of physical and digital sales and the controversy surrounding streaming payouts, bands and musicians have over the past several years looked to brands and lucrative sync deals for much-needed exposure and a paycheck….

As you can probably tell from MBW’s coverage of Doug Morris’s Q&A at Midem yesterday (June 7), the label legend’s star turn was our highlight of the French conference….

There was trouble at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Sunday night when police say people tried to get into the sold out Hot 97 Summer Jam Concert without tickets and bottles were thrown in the ensuing melee….

Markus Wenzel has been promoted from managing director of Universal Music Publishing Germany to the new role of president, UMP Germany and senior VP, Austria, Switzerland….

At first, the extensive flooding of Houston, Texas on May 26 (where homes and major highways were enveloped by as much as 11 inches of rain) seemed likely to derail plans for the seventh annual Free Press Festival, set to take place in Houston June 6 and 7….

In compiling statistics about the much-discussed dearth of female voices on country radio, trios that include a female member — like Lady Antebellum, The Band Perry and Gloriana — tend not to be counted in the mix. But according to members of the latter band, they often face the same challenges as solo female acts….

The Supremes — the biggest girl group of all time on Billboard’s Hot 100 — will be the focus of a new exhibit at The Grammy Museum….

During a tour stop in Tijuana, Mexico on May 30, Enrique Iglesias raised his hand for a choreographed moment he had performed nearly nightly since the South and Central American leg of the Sex and Love Tour kicked off in Paraguay a month earlier….

In March, Twentieth Century Fox filed a preemptive lawsuit against a record label doing business as Empire Distribution and denied claims that the hit TV series Empire constituted a trademark violation….

Songwriters are getting angry. The disparity between the money paid by streaming services to record labels (plus artists) and publishers (plus songwriters) is, as Sony/ATV’s Martin Bandier puts it, threatening the ‘entire livelihood’ of his clients….