News Former Sony Music exec Joel Klaiman launches music marketing and management agency, ASCEND4M Exec also served as President at HITCO Entertainment
News Exceleration Music expands to Asia by investing in India-based indie label Azadi Records Company makes financial investment in India-headquartered independent record label, Azadi Records
News TuneCore partners with song data startup Session, co-founded by Max Martin, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, Niclas Molinder Partnership to allow independent artists to distribute their music from Session Studio directly to streaming platforms
News Universal Music Group acquires UAE-based music marketing and distribution agency Chabaka Music Chabaka is part of the wider CHBK Group
News Vietnam’s VNG Corp, owner of music streaming service Zing MP3, files for IPO in the US VNG is Vietnam's first unicorn
News YouTube is testing a search feature that lets you hum to identify songs YouTube has initiated trials of a new song search feature on the Android version of its app
News Alliance Entertainment says that its K-Pop sales jumped 55% to $32m in the 12 months to end of July Company listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market in February after completing a SPAC merger with Adara Acquisition
News YG Entertainment teams with metaverse studio Karta to launch virtual BLACKPINK experience in Roblox Metaverse studio Karta built the BLACKPINK experience on Roblox
News After partnering with AI music startup Lemonaide, BeatStars unveils AI music creation tool, ‘Seeds’ According to BeatStars, the new tool is aimed at helping creators generate initial ideas for music
News Apple partners with marketing platform Linkfire for podcast data analytics Linkfire is a marketing platform used by artists and labels
News Round Hill Music acquires Canada-based indie music company Linus Entertainment Investment includes a catalogue of over 3,000 songs and 20,000 master recordings
News PULSE Records and Brent Faiyaz form artist development JV PULSE Records was established in June as a joint venture between PULSE Music Group and Concord
News Ashley Gorley’s Tape Room Music to sell over 350 songs to Red Light Ventures and Firebird Music under new partnership Coran Capshaw inks deal with songwriter Gorley and his associates on behalf of Firebird and Red Light
News Spotify could ban white noise podcasts to boost annual profit by up to $38M (report) Bloomberg reports that Daniel Ek and co may make bold move to free up internal resources and improve profitability
News After raising $2.7m, music royalties marketplace MasterExchange sells out its first ‘initial music offering’ Platform, launched in 2022 in Stockholm, is a marketplace to invest in song royalties