News Sphere Entertainment secures $1.7B investment from Abu Dhabi for first international venue The venue will built on a plot of land between Yas Mall and SeaWorld Abu Dhabi.
News HYBE India partners with Snapchat to power AR auditions for its girl group search Under the partnership, candidates can film and upload audition content through a dedicated 'Audition' Lens on Snapchat.
News Tencent Music completes $2.4B acquisition of audio platform Ximalaya Ximalaya is one of China's largest podcasting and audiobooks platforms
News Primary Wave acquires interests in album art collection from Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, co-founder of British design studio Hipgnosis Design studio founded by Powell and the late Storm Thorgerson in the 1960's
News Vietnam’s DAO Music Entertainment strikes strategic partnership with The Orchard Deal gives DAO Music Entertainment access to The Orchard's global distribution network
News Spotify raises Premium prices in Canada by up to CAD $3 per month The Student plan remains unchanged at CAD $6.39 per month, while other tiers saw changes of CAD $1.30 to CAD $3.00 per month.
News Warner Music forms cross-border artist development platform GLIIDE with Thailand’s GMM Music The platform's first signing is SVRN, a performance-driven artist whose music video for his debut single "WHY" was released on Thursday.
News Barry Weiss’s RECORDS promotes Andrew Saltman to SVP of Artist Development, Sara Gil to General Manager The pair will lead label operations across RECORDS and its country imprint RECORDS Nashville
News Meet 2026’s first breakout band, according to Luminate – a masked math rock duo called Angine de Poitrine, with weekly global on-demand streams up from under 2k to 11.2m in a single year Band went viral after a KEXP performance that has since accumulated more than 14m YouTube views.
News From Sony Music Publishing’s $4 billion catalog deal to Live Nation’s ‘blue dot fever’ rebuttal… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up The biggest headlines from the past few days...
Interviews ‘The next global genre will likely start in someone’s bedroom – and that bedroom might be in Lagos, Mumbai or São Paulo.’ MBW's Trailblazers series meets Constantin Koehncke, CEO of Image-Line, the Belgian company behind FL Studio
News Russ honored with NMPA Gold & Platinum Recognition celebrating 26 certified songs The plaque was presented by NMPA President & CEO David Israelite alongside Omar Grant, Senior Director of Creative at Sony Music Publishing
News T.J. Martell Foundation to honor Red Light Management founder Coran Capshaw with Lifetime Music Industry Award Capshaw has built Red Light into what the company says is the world's largest independent artist management firm, with a roster that includes Dave Matthews Band, Phish, Chris Stapleton, and The Strokes.
News What ‘blue dot fever’? Live Nation CFO says ‘There is absolutely no data that supports any issues’ with ticket sales. Live Nation‘s President & CFO spoke at MoffettNathanson’s investor conference on Thursday
News Primary Wave strikes partnership with Pete Townshend for ‘future creative endeavors’ including use of his name, image, and likeness rights Primary Wave Music partners with the co-founder and principal songwriter of legendary British rock band The Who
News Managers of Grammy winners Justice and Gesaffelstein back music biz masters targeting emerging markets The program's strategic advisory board includes several senior executives from the French music business
News Taylor Swift’s 1989 and Beyoncé’s Single Ladies among 25 recordings inducted into Library of Congress National Recording Registry Other inductees include The Go-Go's' debut album Beauty and the Beat, Weezer's self-titled Blue Album, Chaka Khan's I Feel for You and others
Analysis Will this BTS tide finally lift all K-Pop boats? The following op/ed comes from author and music economist Will Page, and Jeongbeom ‘JB’ Kim, Chief Data Officer at the Korean-based KreatorsNetwork