News Spotify’s Premium Content Strategy Director Darya Pourshasb exits, joins Justin Blau’s NFT platform Royal Pourshasb joins Royal as Head of Global Artist & Label Partnerships
News Warner Recorded Music appoints Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda to Web3 advisory role Warner says Shinoda will help shape its 'artist-centric approach to Web3'
News Big Sync Music expands in Latin America, led by Patricia Portaro Portaro named Head of Music Supervision, LATAM
News ByteDance launches new music streaming service in China App is called Qishui Yinyue, and its catalog currently features 10m music tracks
News Spotify launches specialist K-Pop exec recruitment drive Candidate will join'a newly created team focused on breaking through K-Pop and K-culture driving communities'
News Songwriter Skyler Stonestreet sells catalog to Influence Media Partners in ‘multi-million dollar’ deal Stonestreet has written hits for Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, Dua Lipa and more
News Fan funding platform Corite enters Web3 partnership with superstar DJ and producer Alan Walker Walker has amassed over 50bn audio and video streams
News From Sony’s $1bn Epic Games deal to Deezer’s IPO talks: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
News Warner to ‘mint shared memories as NFTs’ in partnership with $10m-backed Web3 startup POAP Atlantic Records rapper Kevin Gates will incorporate POAPs into his Khaza Tour
News BMG to release first David Bowie film officially sanctioned by his estate Tony Visconti to serve as the film's music producer
News Both of the UK’s two biggest independent albums in 2021 were over 6 years old 2021's top-performing independent album in the UK was Arctic Monkeys' 2013 release, AM
News Universal files flurry of trademark applications for Bored Ape NFT that hint at crypto and merch plans Universal's Web3 label 10:22PM bought a Bored Ape NFT for over $350,000 in March
News Epic Games is building a new creator marketplace – and music looks likely to play a key role MBW spots job ad that hints something big is coming, following Epic's Bandcamp and Harmonix buys
Interviews ‘For music rightsholders, Web3 is an opportunity for extraordinary growth.’ Tuned Global MD, Con Raso, tells MBW about the company's expansion into Web3, and its future plans
News Sonos strikes $100m deal to buy Netherlands-based speaker firm Mayht Sonos has acquired Mayht for approximately $10m in cash