1 February 2024TikTok’s biggest headache in its fight with Universal Music Group is UMG’s publishing catalog (and 2 other observations on the feud the whole music industry is talking about) News
1 February 2024Kenny Ong appointed Managing Director for Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore and Special Projects at Sony Music News
1 February 2024USTR’s ‘Notorious Markets’ Report doesn’t mention AI-enabled fraud, despite RIAA’s efforts News
31 January 2024Warner Chappell Music signs Grammy-nominated R&B artist Coco Jones to exclusive publishing deal News
31 January 2024Big Machine Label ups Mike Rittberg to COO, Clay Hunnicutt to EVP, Label Operations News
31 January 2024Coldplay and Warner Music team up with MIT and Live Nation to tackle environmental impact of concerts News
31 January 2024Confirmed: All of Universal Music Group’s music will be removed by TikTok in the coming days News
30 January 2024The music industry is changing. Thomas Coesfeld is busy preparing BMG for what’s next. News
30 January 2024Generative AI music market to be worth $3bn by 2028, says report commissioned by Sacem and GEMA News
30 January 2024UK parliamentary committee reports ‘endemic misogyny and discrimination’ in music business News
30 January 2024BMG partners with Technical University of Munich to create AI-driven music marketing campaigns News
30 January 2024With India in the running to overtake the US as the biggest music streaming market (by volume), Believe swoops for local ‘powerhouse’ catalog News
30 January 2024SymphonyOS partners with CD Baby to equip 2M artists with AI-powered marketing tools News
30 January 2024With ‘superfans’ in their eyes, could the major record companies now rally behind Spotify in its ‘app tax’ battle with Apple? News
29 January 2024Riot Games cuts 530 roles globally as it ‘more tightly integrate esports, music, and entertainment’ with its games News
29 January 2024Todd Moscowitz and Sony Music’s Santa Anna strike deal with hip hop label Trill Entertainment News
29 January 2024Cherie Hu, founder of Water & Music, to join Syracuse University’s prestigious Bandier Program News
29 January 2024Warner Chappell Music ups Lázaro Hernández to SVP, A&R, US Latin and Latin America News
26 January 2024From Spotify’s ‘superfan clubs’ to Apple Music’s spatial audio royalty boost… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up News
25 January 2024A year after he took charge as CEO, Robert Kyncl has quietly transformed Warner Music Group’s leadership News
25 January 2024AI-made music can now be easily uploaded to SoundCloud, thanks to a trio of new deals News
25 January 2024Dot Da Genius on Kid Cudi, Kanye, the possibility of a producers’ strike and why he wants to ‘completely overhaul’ the current music industry business model News
25 January 2024Rostrum Pacific sets sights on physical distribution with Fat Beats acquisition, hires Universal veterans News
25 January 2024As ‘artist-centric’ nobbles DIY aggregators, is a big-money ‘middle class’ distribution acquisition inevitable in 2024? News