Analysis News Believe generated $800m in annual revenues in 2022, up 31.8% YoY Company's full-year financial results were published on Wednesday, March 15
Interviews Avex Inc. CEO Katsumi Kuroiwa on Japan, the modern music business, and global expansion MBW's World Leaders Series interviews Katsumi Kuroiwa, President and CEO of Japan's Avex Group
News Universal confirms partnership with Deezer to explore new streaming model Partnership follows UMG alliance with TIDAL announced in Janauary
News SESAC Music Group acquires distribution and content delivery platform AudioSalad AudioSalad has over 16 million audio and video assets under management
News Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to lay off 10,000 more employees in company’s ‘Year of Efficiency’ News was shared by Meta's founder and CEO in a letter to staff on Tuesday, March 14
Analysis News HYBE’s not the only K-pop giant eyeing the US: SM Entertainment plans $150m Stateside acquisition to speed up global expansion Over the weekend, HYBE officially ceased its attempt to acquire a 40% stake in SM Entertainment.
Interviews News Warner Chappell expands JV with Sweden-based Lilly Raye Music, strikes new partnerships with Tommy Brown, Parx Publishing Lilly Raye Music is a management company and publisher founded by US music executive Edward Matthew
News Having already spent $100m on music rights, Pythagoras buys Barton Music publishing catalog, including songs performed by Frank Sinatra Pythagoras Music Fund buys publishing rights of Barton Music and its affiliated catalogs
News Warner Records launches flagship dance music label Major Recordings, led by Sam Mobarek Label's first signing is dance duo PARISI
News Spain-based Larrosa Music Group raises $16m to buy Spanish-language catalogs Company says the investment 'was led by investors from the United States and Spain'
News From Larry Jackson’s $1bn-backed gamma to the US recorded music industry’s $15.9bn in 2022… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories on MBW from the past seven days
News Snoop Dogg returns Death Row catalog to streaming services, label to sign new artists in partnership with Larry Jackson’s gamma gamma and Snoop Dogg sign long-term licensing deal for exclusive rights to market and distribute Death Row Records Catalog
News Song data startup Session, founded by Max Martin, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, and Niclas Molinder, acquired by royalty platform Salt Björn Ulvaeus will join Salt’s board
Interviews ‘We’re in a renaissance for creativity. The things creators will be able to do tomorrow, they cannot do today.’ Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava on her ambitions for Splice, predictions for the music creator space, and her forecast for the impact AI will have on the music industry...
News The Orchard acquires dance and electronic music distribution company Above Board London-based Above Board was founded by Dan Hill in 2007