Posts by Murray Stassen

Diplo, Red Light Management, Kevin Liles and more join $12m round for social audio platform Stationhead

Series A round was Led by Buttonwood Group Advisors

Rich Castillo exits Warner’s Atlantic Records UK for senior A&R role at Universal’s EMI Records

Rich Castillo joined Atlantic Records UK as A&R Director in May 2020

Triller calls for ‘every American to delete TikTok’

Mahi de Silva, CEO of Triller, publishes letter calling for "every American" to delete TikTok

Dionnee Harper named Executive Vice President of Marketing and Artist Development at Warner Records

Executive is currently Senior Vice President, Head of Marketing at Atlantic Records

Tencent Music launches ‘TME Business Intelligence for Artists’. It sounds a lot like Spotify for Artists.

TME says new platform marks a "deepening" of what it calls its "dual engine content-and-platform strategy"

K-pop giant SM Entertainment forms JV with AmazeVR to produce immersive VR concerts for the metaverse

Studio A will be based in Seoul, South Korea

What will music streaming services look like in a Web3 world?

A panel of experts explore the topic of Web3 Music Services

Mojo Music & Media acquires songwriter rights and co-publishing interests of country songwriter Sharon Vaughn

Deal includes 28 Country chart singles released between 1977 and 2004

Three Six Zero acquires London’s SARM Studios from producer Trevor Horn

Studio complex will serve as the new base for Three Six Zero Recordings

Sean Stevenson promoted to Chief Operating Officer at MNRK Music Group

Stevenson joined the company in 2018 as Executive Vice President and General Manager

Spotify buys popular music trivia game Heardle

Spotify says that Heardle is 'more than a trivia game', and that it's 'also a tool for musical discovery'

HYBE strikes global content deal with Disney, including exclusive shows from BTS

Agreement includes global distribution of five major content titles from HYBE

Zeon Richards exits Head of Partnerships role at Pollen, as firm reveals that it now ‘prioritizes profits over growth’

Company recently raised $150m in a Series C round

Universal strikes strategic deal with Thai record label Hype Train to introduce T-Pop to global audiences

HYPE TRAIN GROUP launched in late 2020, with Universal Music Thailand as its exclusive distributor

Consumers spent over $2bn in the UK record industry in 2021, but streaming spending growth continued to slow

UK consumers spent £1.68 billion (approx. $2.25bn) on recorded music in 2021 across physical and digital sales, plus subscription streaming. The market’s total recorded music spend in 2021 represented YoY growth of 8.7%, or £133.7 million ($179m) versus 2020. That’s according to figures released today (March 1) by the UK’s Entertainment Retailers Association, in its … Continued