News Stones Throw Publishing signs with Songtrust for global publishing administration Songtrust powers global rights administration for over 350,000 writers and 3m works
News Former One Direction member Louis Tomlinson inks global deal with BMG for second album Tomlinson's solo work has generated over 1 billion streams
News Eric Franklin promoted to Vice President of Digital Account Strategy at Warner’s Rhino Entertainment Franklin was previously Senior Director of Digital Sales at Rhino
News Influence Media Partners buys catalog from Grammy-nominated songwriter Julia Michaels Firm launched a $100m fund in March to invest in catalogs of female music creators
News Bridget O’Gara Bloom joins Sentric Music Group as Head of Sync, North America Company also promotes Patrick Cloherty to Head of Sync, Europe
News YouTube launches $100m Shorts Fund to pay creators over course of 2021-2022 'Thousands of creators' will be paid for their content on Shorts, says YouTube
News Dan Rutman appointed Director, US & Canada at TuneCore Rutman is the founder of Solitaire Recordings
News Aimee Beren joins management company Hard 8//Working Group Artist manager joins firm with client awfultune
News Sony Music Publishing UK signs songwriter and producer Ben Jackson-Cook He recently acted as Rag’n’Bone Man’s musical director and primary collaborator
News Russ Tannen promoted to President at DICE as company expands presence in New York Ticketing platform is adding over 20 roles across marketing, operations and artist partnerships
News Social app Clubhouse launches on Android Beta version available to Android users in the US, other countries to follow
News Nigeria’s Mavin Records launches executive talent program, Mavin Future Five The Mavin Future Five program will equip five 18-23 year olds with training, mentoring and internships
News Steve Robbins joins UK music tech startup Audoo as Chief Technology Officer Firm recently closed a £5.2m series A funding round
News Twitch mobile app was downloaded 22m globally in Q1 2021, up 62% year-over-year Platform's mobile MAUs for March 2021 were up 69% year-on-year
News Warner Chappell Music France inks global deal with rapper RK Artist became Gold certified at 16 years old