Posts by Murray Stassen

$100m-backed Asia-focused music fund blackx launches operations in Japan, led by Hiroki Shirasuka

Company also expands presence Greater China and Singapore with a string of senior industry hires

DICE raises $65m from investors including Matt Pincus, Willard Ahdritz and more

MUSIC CEO Matt Pincus will also join the DICE Board of Directors

Warner Music Canada and Warner Music India launch 91 NORTH RECORDS joint venture

Artist and producer Ikky named as Creative Director for the JV

Timbaland acquires strategic stake in lifestyle and vinyl brand 12on12

Swizz Beatz has also previously invested in the business

TuneCore Germany inks Dolby Atmos production partnership with ThreeDee Music

Deal will allow independent artists to release their tracks in Dolby Atmos through Apple Music

From Jungkook’s 35.5m monthly Spotify listeners to Avid’s $1.4bn sale to STG… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up

Five of the biggest headlines on MBW this week...

Jungkook now has 35.5m+ monthly listeners on Spotify – over half a million more than BTS.

HYBE-signed K-Pop star had 35,578,104 monthly listeners on the music streaming platform as of August 18

Primary Wave acquires catalog from Dennis DeYoung, founding member of rock band Styx

DeYoung penned seven of the band’s eight Top 10 Billboard hits

Concord buys portion of song catalog of ‘Hey There Delilah’ writer and Plain White T’s frontman, Tom Higgenson

'Hey There Delilah' has been streamed over 960 million times on Spotify alone

BMG to represent ‘entire publishing catalog’ of Grammy Award-winning UK electronic music duo The Chemical Brothers

Duo’s first seven albums to move to BMG

‘Dolby Atmos is not just a gimmick. Music in 3D has the potential to replace Stereo.’

Matthias Stalter, founder and CEO of Spatial Audio production company ThreeDee Music, gives us his predictions for the Spatial Audio business, and explains how ThreeDee Music is situated in the sector…

AI a threat to music? Try telling that to this artist from Costa Rica – who’s just recreated his late father’s voice on a new track

Costa Rican artist Pedro Capmany used AI to record a duet with his late father, the legendary rock singer, José Capmany

Elon Musk’s X files motion to dismiss music publishers’ $250m+ copyright lawsuit; NMPA says platform has ‘consistently failed’ to stop ‘rampant piracy’ on its platform

Twitter / X has filed a motion to dismiss the complaint 'in its entirety'

Hans Zimmer acquires London’s iconic Maida Vale studios from the BBC

Studio has seen the likes of David Bowie, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Dusty Springfield record in the building

BMG ups interest in Eurodance stars SNAP! via acquisition of the writer’s share of royalties of the group’s Michael Münzing

BMG acquired the SNAP! recorded music catalogue in 2018