News Julie Greenwald promoted to Chairman & CEO of newly-created Atlantic Music Group Atlantic Music Group sits above both Atlantic Records and 300 Elektra Entertainment
News Lily Golightly joins Verve Label Group as Senior Vice President of Publicity Exec will oversee US communications for imprints including Verve Records, Impulse!, Verve Forecast, Decca Records US, and others
Analysis News African music service Mdundo’s monthly active users reach 21.5m, up 107% YoY Mdundo has published its quarterly report for calendar Q3 2022
News Warner Music acquires stake in Serbian record label, Mascom Records Company acts as Warner Music’s local distributor
Analysis News With revenues of $510m in H1, Latin Music is still on course to generate $1 billion in the US this year According to new mid-year data released by the RIAA, on a retail basis, Latin Music revenues grew 23% in the US in H1 2022
News Warner is looking for an exec with gaming experience to lead its Metaverse strategy Company is hiring for a Senior Director, Metaverse Development in New York
Analysis News Deezer targets annual revenues of €1bn by 2025 Streaming company details growth strategy at investor day in London
Analysis News From Primary Wave’s $2bn deal to the 100,000 tracks uploaded to streaming services each day… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up Our biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip
News Janelle Mitchell named as latest Richard Antwi Scholar Mitchell becomes fifth scholarship recipient
Analysis News Watch out Spotify: Multiple verified ‘TikTok Music’ Twitter accounts hint at pending global launch At least six verified Twitter accounts for ‘TikTok Music’ have popped up for multiple global markets
News Primary Wave strikes $2 billion deal with financial giant Brookfield to acquire music copyrights As part of the deal, Brookfield will acquire a significant minority interest in Primary Wave
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