News From Steve Cooper’s last Warner interview to Concord’s $1.8bn bond offering… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up Our biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip
News Concord prices $1.8bn bond offering backed by over 1m music copyrights Transaction is claimed to be 'the largest asset-backed securitization offering of music rights in the industry to date'
News Connect Music Group expands operations in UK via acquisition of artist and label services firm MTX MTX was founded in 2018 by Mike Bartlett and Mike Mills
News Vevo DSCVR Artists To Watch 2023: K-Trap, Lauren Spencer Smith, Ramón Vega, flowerovlove Four more from VEVO's global lists of artists tipped to make their breakthrough in 2023
News Xplicit signs with Electric Feel Entertainment and Sony Music Publishing New management team and publishing partner for hit songwriter
Analysis News TuneCore has paid out $3bn to self-releasing artists to date TuneCore reported further that its music publishing division has paid artists close to $90 million to date
News Merlin partners with fitness app Supernatural to bring indie music to Meta Quest virtual workouts Supernatural claims to be 'world's first subscription-based, full-body fitness service for virtual reality'
News [PIAS] to distribute Universal-owned Spinefarm Records as part of companies’ global alliance Label will be distributed worldwide basis through the [PIAS] services division [Integral]
News Tuned Global partners with two firms in the medical technology space, MediMusic and Nue Life Health Tuned Global to provide metadata, music content, and streaming service functionality through its suite of APIs
News Dirty Hit extends global distribution deal with Ingrooves Music Group Dirty Hit is behind artists such as The 1975, Wolf Alice, Pale Waves
News K-Pop promoter Powerhouse, which has worked with BTS, BLACKPINK and MONSTA X, strikes strategic partnership with AEG Presents Company produced 15 shows for BTS’ 2018 Love Yourself US Tour in 2018
News Peter Frampton music interests acquired by BMG Peter Frampton is a Grammy award-winning, multi-Platinum-selling singer-songwriter
News Shilpa Das joins AVEX USA as VP, Head of Publishing & Label Administration Das joins Avex USA after eleven years with Reach Music Publishing
News Web3 music platform Public Pressure’s first NFT project rakes in $2m ‘within days’ of release NFT collection comprised 3,333 limited edition NFTs that were sold for a fixed price of $600 apiece
News Song data startup Session, co-founded by Max Martin, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, Niclas Molinder, partners with Brazil collection society UBC UBC represents more than 50,000 members
News Silvia Montello appointed CEO of the UK’s Association of Independent Music Montello replaces Paul Pacifico
News Warner partners with e-commerce platform LGND.io and blockchain firm Polygon on new collectables platform LGND Music platform to launch in January 2023
News After closing $100m fund, artist funding platform beatBread expands European business, led by industry veteran Mark Terry Terry will lead the company’s expansion in the UK and Continental Europe