7 February 2024Hipgnosis Songs Fund shareholders vote in favor of giving £20m ‘bung’ to bidders on its catalog News
7 February 2024PPL announces record payout of over $352M to performers and rightsholders in 2023 News
6 February 2024Spotify’s spat with Apple, its new deal with Joe Rogan and further cost-cutting: 3 things we learned on the company’s latest earnings call News
6 February 2024Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus and Quincy Jones join strategic funding round for royalty platform, Salt News
6 February 2024UK-based talent management company NQ strikes partnerships with Columbia Records UK and the Orchard News
6 February 2024Spotify added 10m subscribers in Q4 2023, taking its total global paying subs audience to 236m News
5 February 2024Beggars Group, Secretly, Partisan Records among indie labels pushing back against Apple Music’s higher payouts for Spatial Audio (report) News
5 February 2024Google was once at the vanguard of ethical AI music development. That may no longer be the case. News
5 February 2024Mike Caren’s APG makes string of promotions, including Eli Piccarreta to SVP, A&R News
5 February 2024Megan Thee Stallion inks distribution deal with Warner Music that allows her to remain independent News
5 February 2024Warner Music UK appoints Natasha Billing as SVP, Commercial and Data Insight, promotes Nick Allum to VP, Data and Insight News
3 February 2024Downtown, Hipgnosis and NMPA rally behind Universal Music Group in its fight with TikTok News
2 February 2024From Universal’s feud with TikTok to YouTube Music’s 100m subscribers… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up News
2 February 2024Merck Mercuriadis to exit CEO role at Hipgnosis Song Management, becoming Chairman; Ben Katovsky promoted to Chief Executive of company News
2 February 2024As Universal Music hits begin vanishing from TikTok, UMG accuses platform of ‘unwillingness to appropriately compensate artists and songwriters, protect human artists from the harmful effects of AI, and address online safety issues’ News
2 February 2024Big change at Universal Music Group: John Janick and Monte Lipman to head up newly-restructured label groups in the US News
1 February 2024Primary Wave moves into Brazilian music with stake in Nas Nuvens Catalog (report) News
1 February 2024As YouTube Music hits 100m paid subscribers, Lyor Cohen says the platform ‘cares profoundly about the health of the music industry’. News
1 February 202478% of small-to-midsize businesses in the US currently misuse personal streaming accounts to play music to their customers. It’s costing the music industry around $1.38 billion per year. News
1 February 2024Sony Music Publishing UK appoints ZaZa Kazadi, Adrienne Bookbinder, Nasra Artan to senior A&R roles News
1 February 2024TuneCore and Amazon Music UK partner to offer free studio time to independent artists News