News ONErpm launches Digital Strategy Department, led by Casey Childers Located in Nashville, Childers was most recently Senior Project Manager at the company
News ‘Irresponsible and offensive’: NMPA’s David Israelite does not like IMPALA’s new report on the ‘music streaming pie’. At all. Publishers' association chief calls report questioning slices of revenue pie "irresponsible and offensive"
News Willard Ahdritz receives Innovator Award at Music Biz Conference in Nashville The Kobalt Music founder also took part in a keynote conversation at the event on Tuesday (May 16)
News After being acquired by Chartmetric, tech platform Onesheet, which can build artist One-Sheets ‘in seconds’ launches first version in beta Onesheet was acquired by Chartmetric in October 2022
Analysis News Indie labels question if record companies’ share of streaming royalties is ‘undervalued’ vs. music publishers’ slice of the pie A new report from indie label group IMPALA asks if recorded music should have seen its share of the streaming pie grow faster
News Primary Wave strikes ‘multi-million dollar’ music rights deal with rock band Skillet Company has acquired their music publishing, as well as the record royalties across five of their albums released from 2003 through 2016
News Thomas Coesfeld to become CEO of BMG effective July 1, 2023 Bertelsmann brings forward BMG leadership change. Hartwig Masuch to remain associated with Bertelsmann in an advisory capacity until 2026
News Amber Davis promoted to SVP of Warner Chappell Music UK, in addition to role as Head of A&R Exec will report into Shani Gonzales, WCM UK’s Managing Director
Analysis News TikTok launches ‘Artist Impact Program’, inks several distribution deals to connect artists with brands TikTok inks global distribution deals with Believe, DistroKid, Vydia and more to 'fuel the pipeline of talent and artist-driven music' on its Commercial Music Library
News Tencent Music Entertainment had 94.4m paying music users at the end of Q1, up 17.7% YoY Tencent Music Entertainment Group has published its financial results for Q1 2023 (the three months to end of March)
Analysis News Utopia to build new music warehouse in the UK in $125m deal with logistics company DP World DP World is fitting out a new warehouse in Bicester in the UK for Utopia's distribution unit, Utopia Distribution Services
News HYBE just released a K-pop track sung in six different languages using AI voice technology HYBE releases 'first-ever multilingual track produced in Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and Vietnamese'
News Joanna Noyes promoted to SVP, Global Marketing and Brand Strategy at the Orchard Exec previously held the VP, Marketing role since 2019 and has been with The Orchard since 2014
News Payments automation platform Tipalti raises $150m from JPMorgan and Hercules Capital Company has also appointed three new C-suite executives
News Jennifer Cabalquinto named Chief Financial Officer at EMPIRE Exec previously held Chief Financial Officer positions at 2K Games, Universal Studios Hollywood and more