News Spotify acquires Dublin-based content moderation startup Kinzen Acquisition comes three months after Spotify launched its 'Safety Advisory Council'
News Rose Cook promoted to SVP of Operations at SESAC Music Group Cook was formerly the SVP of Licensing Operations at SESAC Performing Rights
News US music data analytics firm Chartmetric acquires UK-based tech startup onesheet Artist marketing startup onesheet was co-founded by Stevie Elsworth and Mike Miller
News HYBE launches K-Pop NFT platform for fans of TOMORROW X TOGETHER, SEVENTEEN and more, via ‘LEVVELS’ JV LEVVELS is a Los Angeles-based joint venture company operated by HYBE and Dunamu
Analysis News TikTok’s European business grew by 477% in 2021… but posted $896m pre-tax loss TikTok files financial results for its European business for 2021
Analysis News HYBE acquires fake voice AI company Supertone in $32m deal (report) Supertone generated global media attention in January 2021 with its so-called Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) technology.
News Song data startup Session, co-founded by Max Martin, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, Niclas Molinder, strikes partnership with SoundCloud Session Studio is embedded within DAWs to capture song information and data at the point of creation
News Country superstar Blake Shelton sells catalog to Influence Media Partners Catalog ahs sold more than 10m albums worldwide to date
News Ralph W. Peer named Managing Director, peermusic Australia Exec will also continue directing peermusic initiatives as their Vice President of peermusic’s African and Middle East operations
News BMG’s Global Head of Catalog Recordings, Peter Stack, to step down at end of 2022 Stack joined BMG in 2014 following the company's acquisition Union Square Music
Analysis News Still convinced that TikTok isn’t turning into a record company? ByteDance is hiring for A&R Manager positions in four key North American cities
News Apple Music reaches 100m song milestone. Rival Spotify has ‘over 80m’ on its own platform 'We’ve gone from 1,000 songs in your pocket to 100,000x that on Apple Music,' says Apple Music’s Global Head of Editorial Rachel Newman
News Soulwax’s classic 2ManyDJs album is finally coming to Spotify – kicking off the 40th anniversary celebrations of [PIAS] Kenny Gates and Michel Lambot launched [PIAS] in 1982
News UK music licensing company PPL paid out $16.4m of international revenue to performers and rightsholders in Q3 PPL says that its Q3 payout total is made up of international revenues collected from 73 CMOs worldwide
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