News Believe generated €1bn in Digital Music Sales last year DMS is the revenue generated from digital store partners and social media platforms before royalty payment to artists and labels
News Songtradr to acquire 7digital, a UK publicly listed B2B music technology company, in $23.4m deal 7digital provides a catalog of over 80 million licensed tracks and offers API services to power music in apps
Analysis Is TikTok about to pull off a heist on the music industry? Could indie tracks and AI music successfully replace major label music on the platform?
News Zach Bryan signs global publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music Artist and songwriter has more than one billion global streams
News Hipgnosis acquires song catalog of Tobias Jesso Jr., who was just named Songwriter Of The Year at the Grammys He was named as the first-ever Grammy Songwriter of the Year at this year's Grammy Awards
News Scott Cohen-led startup JKBX partners with electronic market maker GTS to take music rights investing ‘to the masses’ Platform to securitize and fractionalize royalty streams
News Robert Kyncl’s latest hire at Warner Music: The ex-Google exec who helped build YouTube’s ContentID Ariel Bardin was Chief Product Officer at Celonis prior to joining WMG
News TikTok launches DIY distro service SoundOn in Australia, the same week it started limiting access to major label music in the market SoundOn was already Live in the UK, US, Brazil and Indonesia
News Goldman Sachs leads new $110m investment in live entertainment tech company Fever News of the investment comes a year after closing a previous funding round of $227 million
News Primary Wave Music strikes ‘multimillion-dollar deal’ with Stevie Van Zandt Deal includes stake in producer royalties from his work with Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, along with band member and producer royalties from his collaboration with Bruce Springsteen
News From Universal’s TIDAL partnership to TikTok limiting access to music in Australia… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up Our biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip
News TikTok is trying to prove that it doesn’t need major label music – and the eyes of the industry are upon it. Service restricts access to major label music for subset of users in Australia
News Warner Music Group board member, Ceci Kurzman, joins UTA board alongside Paul Wachter Kurzman is the founder of Nexus Management
News British Government scraps plan for AI text and data mining copyright exception Copyright exception received significant backlash from the UK music industry
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