News With over $5m investment to date, Visionary Media Group wants to create ‘revolutionary experiences for top-tier artists’ Visionary Media Group's founding managing partners are Ronald Zamber and Nick Sciorra
News Premier League football club Wolverhampton Wanderers teams with Warner’s ADA to launch record label in the UK Legendary music manager Peter Rudge has joined the label as a strategic consultant
News With $7.5m in funding to date, ‘social metaverse’ platform Stageverse launches with virtual Muse concert Stageverse was founded in 2017 by Tim Ricker and Claire Seidler
News FUGA rolls out spatial audio support and automated delivery to Apple Music FUGA is a Preferred Plus partner on Apple Music
News From Universal’s new board to Warner’s David Bowie partnership: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up The biggest stories of the past five days – and why they matter
News UK-based live events firm Superstruct Entertainment buys electronic music giant ID&T ID&T Group founders and senior management will become shareholders in Superstruct Entertainment
News TikTok owner ByteDance readies new music streaming app in China (report) ByteDance reportedly started work on the app back in 2019
News The A&R Awards 2021: The finalists revealed! Full list of finalists revealed ahead of sold-out November 9 event in London
News Karoliina Kanerva promoted to Head of International, Warner Music Nordics Kanerva will move to Stockholm and report to Anders Lindberg, Marketing Director, Warner Music Nordics
News Martin Bandier, SESAC’s John Josephson, and Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures join $5m funding round for blockchain streaming service Audius The Chainsmokers, Nas, Jason Derulo and Pusha T also invest in platform
Analysis Would AWAL really have thrived had it not been sold to Sony Music? MBW crunches the numbers on AWAL, and asks if the UK competition watchdog is looking in the right direction
News Åsa Carild joins Utopia as its Head of Platform Carild was formerly the CEO at the Nordic licensing hub Polaris
News Warner Music South Africa acquires local independent label Coleske Coleske is the largest independent label focusing on Afrikaans repertoire
News Lyrics firm Genius acquired for $80m by MediaLab Genius is a lyrics database, editorial publisher, and digital media company founded in August 2009.
Analysis Blog Gaming’s freemium model is making billions. For the music industry, it offers valuable lessons. What the music industry can learn from the video games sector about the long-term power and potential of free content