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It's not just back catalogues of songwriters and recording artists that investment firms are interested in.

The BPI has published its annual 'All About The Music' yearbook, offering its take on the UK's recorded music market in 2021.

Research journal Music & Copyright has published its annual market-share figures for music publishers and labels, covering 2021.

The boundaries between the industry’s different siloes – labels, publishers, management – have always been fluid in the independent sector.

Why the exclamatory headline? Well, European independent-music body Impala and YouTube have often found themselves on opposite sides of arguments.

Why are the IFPI's figures for recorded music revenues in 2021 so different to the estimate that consultancy firm Midia Research published last week?

Slowly but surely, in-person music industry conferences are coming back. AIM Connected, the UK independent body's annual event, included.

Distributor Believe is starting 2022 as it means to go on: acquiring a majority stake in another independent music label.

Metal label Nuclear Blast has been doubling down on digital marketing and e-commerce, as it battles to grow revenues against the backdrop of the pandemic.

Independent label Beggars Group has published its financial results for 2020 via Companies House in the UK. The filing, which was first reported on by MBW, reveals that Beggars’ revenues fell slightly from £63.1m...

A group of independent music companies led by British firm Killing Moon Group are coming together to form a new organisation focusing on distribution, label and non-label services.

British label bodies the BPI and Aim are trumpeting the market share taken by independent labels in 2020. That share grew to just under 26% last year as measured by ‘album equivalent sales’, a metric blending streams...