News Sony Music to expand unrecouped balance program to more artists and songwriters Sony Music is extending the program on a rolling basis
News Pharrell Williams launches NFT platform, the Gallery of Digital Assets 'We’re focused on creating an equitable entity in this creator-centric landscape, so everyone can feel good about GODA,' said Pharrell
News Mark Hoppus, Nick Lippman and Sherry Saeedi launch ‘venture capital-like’ artist incubator, Verswire Co-founders include veteran manager Nick Lippman and Veeps co-founder & COO Sherry Saeedi, with Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz serving as strategic advisor
News As Bad Bunny smashes Apple Music records, his manager Noah Assad says Latin Music will ‘keep growing’ Bad Bunny broke the record for the highest first-week streams worldwide for a Latin album in Apple Music history
News Warner Music Israel launches, headed by Mariah Mochiach Mochiach will report into Alfonso Perez-Soto, President of Emerging Markets, Warner Recorded Music
News SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo-man talks the metaverse and his ‘Future Vision of K-Pop’ SM Entertainment's founder and Chief Producer delivered a speech at Stanford University On Friday, May 20
News Kakul Srivastava named new Splice CEO, as founder Steve Martocci transitions to new role Joining the company from Adobe, Srivastava has served on the Splice Board of Directors since 2021
Interviews News Troy Carter’s Venice is launching an NFT-gated members’ club – offering artist services, studios, and more Troy Carter talks about the Venice Music Collective and shares his thoughts on the future of Web3 and NFTs in the music industry
News Music Web3 startup Highlight raises $11m from backers including Three Six Zero, WME Highlight aims to let anyone mint NFTs with no technical knowledge required
News Warner buys minority stake in Poland-based hip-hop concert promoter BIG Idea Deal will see the companies work together to launch new festivals
Analysis News From Universal dumping DIY distribution to Zach Katz at FaZe Clan: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
News After suing Google over app store rules, Epic’s Bandcamp can continue using own payment system… for now. The latest chapter in the legal battle between Epic Games and Google
News Universal dumps DIY distribution, as Spinnup goes invite-only Spinnup is changing to a 'curated artist discovery and distribution platform'
News A new independent distribution powerhouse emerges in Scandinavia, as Danmark buys Secretly Noord Secretly Distribution to become equity partner in DANMARK
News Tuned Global teams with personalized music-for-gaming firm Reactional Music, in push to help gaming sector integrate music into gameplay B2B music streaming technology firm Tuned Global strikes deal to be Reactional Music's back-end music provider