The 20-company Billboard Global Music Index improved 2.1% to a record 2,208.32, bringing its year-to-date gain to 44.0%.
With investors increasingly focused on streaming gains, the Big Three are looking at ways to supercharge subscriber growth in the U.S. and emerging markets.
“Wicked, the film and the campaign, is just the biggest thing we’ve ever done,” says NBCUniversal president of music Mike Knobloch.
Though he rejected claims of fraud and deception, the judge says that the company needs to make it simpler for subscribers to quit the service.
Also this week: ADA expands into Southeast Asia, Orfium and CTS Eventim hire new CTOs and Musicians On Call brings in a development lead.
Over the course of his more than five-decade career, Martinovich worked with artists ranging from Michael Jackson to Dolly Parton.
CEO Robert Kyncl discussed higher wholesale prices for DSPs, Elliot Grainge and the 10K team's "intensity," and putting money to work in A&R.
Attorneys for the star say the case - filed not by Mars but by an investment fund that bought out one of his co-writers - should be tossed out of court immediately.
The U.S.-based collection society, which was recently accepted into CISAC, is expanding its services beyond performance royalty collection.
This week in publishing news: Platinum Grammar signs Morgan St. Jean, Seeker Music buys rights to The Wombats' catalog, Third Side signs Waxahatchee and more.
