News Germany’s record business generated $1bn in the first half of the year, up 5.5% YoY New H1 2022 figures have been published by German Music Industry Association (BVMI)
Analysis News Spotify has spent $1.2bn+ on companies to scale its non-music business over the past 3 years A round-up on acquisitions made by Spotify over the past three years
Interviews ‘Independent and self-distributed artists will continue to erode the market dominance of Universal, Sony and Warner.’ Downtown CCO Tracy Maddux on the firm's investment strategy, and his predictions for the independent artist sector...
News As live music bounces back after lockdown, Spotify dips a toe into concert ticket business Spotify tests concert ticket sales direct to fans
News Dalia Ganz joins Warner Records as SVP, Digital Marketing Exec joins Warner Records following 17 years with The Walt Disney Company
Analysis News Music and travel startup Pollen falls into administration, three months after raising $150m Firm calls in restructuring experts Kroll
News Warner Music Canada inks exclusive worldwide distribution deal with indie label Chaos Club Digital Chaos Club Digital is a Vancouver-based music and technology company
News After raising $34m, beatBread strikes 11 new distributor partnerships across North America, Europe and Africa Company inks 'white label agreements' with 11 music distributors
News Luke Armitage promoted to Senior Vice President of Astralwerks Armitage was previously Vice President of Marketing for Astralwerks
News Robert Gibbs joins UTA as a Partner and Co-Head of Atlanta office Exec was most recently the Head of Music at ICM Partners
Analysis News Reservoir revenues grow 46% to $24.3m in calendar Q2 Reservoir Media has published the financial results for its fiscal Q1 2023 (calendar Q2, 2022)
News TikTok goes on AI music-making and machine learning hiring spree TikTok and ByteDance are hiring for a number of highly-skilled specialists in machine learning and AI music creation
Analysis News From Live Nation’s 100m tickets to Concord’s eight-figure deal… It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week - and why they matter
Analysis News Live Nation has already sold 100m tickets for concerts in 2022 – more than it sold in the whole of 2019 Company generated revenues of $6.2bn across all divisions in the first six months of the year, according to new investor filing
News $500m-backed Litmus Music launches to buy publishing and recording rights Music industry veterans Hank Forsyth and Dan McCarroll team with Carlyle Global Credit to launch venture