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
Interviews How Max Martin’s songwriting techniques are used to write hit, after hit, after hit Top40 Theory founder Asaf Peres on how he studied Max Martin's songs to build out his Melodic Math Course
News Dr. Dre’s The Chronic returns to streaming services via Interscope Records Original distributor Interscope worked The Chronic in 1992 via its relationship with Death Row Records
News Hipgnosis is in buying mode again, as company snaps up song catalog of British hitmakers TMS Included in the TMS catalog are songs Someone You Loved and Before you Go, which were hits for Lewis Capaldi
Analysis News Spotify paying subscribers reached 205m in Q4 2022, up by 10m on the previous quarter Monthly Active Users grew 20% YoY to 489 million at the end of Q4 2022
News Matt Pincus-led MUSIC makes ‘significant minority investment’ in independent music company LVRN LVRN to use the new capital to expand around the world, with a key focus in the U.K. and West Africa
News Universal partners with TIDAL to develop ‘more artist and fan-friendly’ streaming model TIDAL and UMG announced plans to research new streaming model