News From Warner Music Group’s revenues to Pollen going bust… It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the week, brought to you by MBW and Centtrip
News Dawn Olejar named EVP and GM at Verve Label Group; Jamie Krents named President of Verve, Impulse! And Verve Forecast Verve Label Group (VLG) comprises imprints including Decca Records US, Decca Classics, Deutsche Grammophon, Impulse! Records, Verve Records, and Verve Forecast
Analysis News Capitol Records just signed a virtual artist, FN Meka. He has over 10 million followers on TikTok. FN Meka has 10 million followers on TikTok
Analysis Blog Merck Mercuriadis on Lamont Dozier: ‘He was as important as any songwriter that has ever lived.’ Hipgnosis founder pays tribute to all-time great songwriter – while making a point about the rewards great composers get from the music industry
Analysis News Lamont Dozier: Universal Music Group, Motown, Hipgnosis, Sony Music Publishing pay tribute Major music industry names pay tribute to one of the greatest songwriters to emerge from the original Motown era
News Germany’s music publishing landscape transforms via €10m+ acquisition: Roba teams with fund to buy GERIG Deal includes many evergreen in the German market, plus carnival, pop hits and more
News Session signs up as category sponsor at MBW’s 2022 A&R Awards in November High-profile Swedish start-up backs the UK industry's favourite awards event
News Investor appetite for Roblox wanes as bookings drop 4% in Q2, missing forecasts Firm posted a net loss of $176.4 million in Q2
News Germany’s record business generated $1bn in the first half of the year, up 5.5% YoY New H1 2022 figures have been published by German Music Industry Association (BVMI)
Analysis News Spotify has spent $1.2bn+ on companies to scale its non-music business over the past 3 years A round-up on acquisitions made by Spotify over the past three years
Interviews ‘Independent and self-distributed artists will continue to erode the market dominance of Universal, Sony and Warner.’ Downtown CCO Tracy Maddux on the firm's investment strategy, and his predictions for the independent artist sector...
News As live music bounces back after lockdown, Spotify dips a toe into concert ticket business Spotify tests concert ticket sales direct to fans
News Dalia Ganz joins Warner Records as SVP, Digital Marketing Exec joins Warner Records following 17 years with The Walt Disney Company
Analysis Blog ‘As AI creative technologies become more common, the question of AI authorship is particularly important.’ In the following MBW op/ed, Dublin-based Barry Scannell copyright and authorship issues around AI-created art and music
News Island Records Promotes Steven Rowen to SVP, Head of International Marketing Rowen will continue to lead global marketing strategies across the Island roster
News Spotify’s online studio Soundtrap launches live collaboration, auto-save tools Soundtrap will showcase the new tools in a Spotify for Artists Masterclass video to be released Wednesday
News Warner Music Canada inks exclusive worldwide distribution deal with indie label Chaos Club Digital Chaos Club Digital is a Vancouver-based music and technology company
News After raising $34m, beatBread strikes 11 new distributor partnerships across North America, Europe and Africa Company inks 'white label agreements' with 11 music distributors