Analysis As music industry attention shifts to ‘superfans’, let’s not forget who the experts are – retailers. Kim Bayley, head of the UK's Entertainment Retailers' Association, on streaming, superfans, and music rights companies
News Instagram now lets users add songs to their Spotify playlists, taking a page from TikTok’s playbook Move follows TikTok's 'Add To Music App' feature launch
News Milk & Honey sponsors Publisher of the Year category at next month’s Music Business UK Awards Award-winning management company backs the industry's favourite awards ceremony
News Tomorrowland Music taps BMG for exclusive global management and administration The BMG partnership adds publishing expertise to Tomorrowland Music's existing team
News US’s Federal Trade Commission finalizes ‘click-to-cancel’ rule for subscription services The new rule requires cancelling a subscription to be at least as simple as signing up for one
News Universal makes big move in China’s hip-hop scene, inking deal to distribute artists from ‘The Rap Of China’ All upcoming songs from the latest season's artists will be distributed globally under UMG
Analysis News From UMG’s [PIAS] buyout to Concord’s $217m Daddy Yankee deal… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
News Whose rights were sold to Concord in that $217m catalog deal? Daddy Yankee. Puerto Rican megastar inks deal which covers recording and publishing assets
News Apple Music inks major deal in China: App now accessible for China Mobile’s 1 billion+ customers Apple's music streaming service faces stiff competition in the Chinese market from Tencent, NetEase and others
News HYBE’s Weverse to launch new superfan subscription tiers… and keep up to 60% of the money Weverse will reportedly take up to 60% of the revenue generated on its new paid membership service
News 2 Live Crew can take back recorded music copyrights from ex-label, jury rules Lawyers for the current owner of 2 Live Crew's copyrights have filed to overturn the jury's decision
News Carlyle-backed Litmus Music buys Randy Newman’s publishing, recorded music interests Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed in today's announcement
News YouTube unveils new features including collaborative playlists, fan badges and a sleep timer YouTube aims to keep users engaged amid growing competition from other platforms
News Apple Music now lets artists turn their set lists into playlists for tour promotion Apple is expanding its efforts to strengthen the artist-fan connection and offer promotional tools for musicians.
News Tencent Music partners with Galaxy Corp. for Korean rapper G-Dragon’s tour The alliance comes as Tencent Music expands its global presence and increasingly moves into live music
Interviews Key Songs In The Life Of… Walter Jones The senior Sony Music Publishing A&R exec traces his life and career via seven tracks (and a couple of crafty hacks)
Interviews Believe’s Global Head of Music, Romain Vivien, talks artists, AI, streaming fraud, and the future of independence MBW’s World Leaders series meets Romain Vivien, Global Head of Music at Paris-headquartered music company Believe
News Triller is finally a publicly traded company: TikTok rival’s share price drops 20% on first day of trading At around $700 million, the company's market cap is short of the $4 billion initially targeted in the merger