News Content sampled from long-form YouTube videos generated over 100bn views on TikTok rival Shorts in April YouTube's TiktTok rival Shorts was rolled out globally in July 2021
News From songwriters’ streaming royalty rate win to Deezer’s IPO… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up… The big stories from the past week
News Bob Dylan Ionic Original collector’s edition recording of Blowin’ In The Wind sells for $1.7m at auction Recording was cut during a special session with T Bone Burnett, on a so-called Ionic Original disc, the new analog format developed by Burnett
News Universal Music Group strikes licensing deal with African music service Mdundo Mdundo reports to have 17 million active monthly users across Africa
News Molly Neuman promoted to CMO of Downtown Music Holdings Neuman most recently served as President of Songtrust
News After raising $4.5m, Keatly Haldeman’s Dequency officially launches Web3 music licensing marketplace Company raised $4.5m via an investment round led by Borderless Capital
News Music veteran Irv Gotti sells stake in Murder Inc. master recordings to Iconoclast as part of $300m deal Los Angeles-based Iconoclast was founded by Olivier Chastan
News Travis Barker releases first NFT collection via LimeWire, as former file-sharing platform officially launches collectibles marketplace Rollout follows news in May that the platform had struck its first major label partnership with Universal Music Group
News TikTok: Music e-commerce plans WON’T be affected by TikTok Shop availability The FT reported that TikTok has scrapped the expansion of its TikTok Shop feature into the US and Europe
News 1 in 3 music listeners in the US discover new music through Twitch, according to new report Study from Twitch and analytics platform Luminate sheds light on how the platform is driving music discovery in the US
News Music licensing platform Freshsound raises $1.33m, recruits ex-Sony and Warner exec Helen McLaughlin to lead catalog expansion McLaughlin is a former Managing Director of Warner Music Sweden, Head of A&R at Sony Music Sweden
News Deezer goes public: Spotify rival makes stock market debut on Euronext Paris Deezer CEO Jeronimo Folgueira rings opening bell
News Rehegoo Music partners with B2B music firm Tuned Global to launch new background streaming service New streaming service is called Music for Spaces
News Arctic Monkeys’ label Domino grew its turnover by 31.6% in 2021, driven by strong catalog sales AM, the 2013-released fifth album from Arctic Monkeys was the UK’s No.1 best-selling independent album in 2021
Analysis News From Universal’s Frank Zappa catalog acquisition to Triller’s US IPO… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The big stories from the past week