News After TikTok and SoundCloud, Tencent Music is a distributor now too TME has already distributed and promoted more than 150,000 songs to overseas platforms
News The Weeknd signs publishing pact with Universal – and he’s thrown new recordings and merch into the package too The Weeknd has sold more than 75 million albums.
News Bryan Kehn promoted to Vice President of Media at Republic Records Kehn first joined Republic Records in 2013
News Safiya Lambie-Knight named Head of Music for the UK & Ireland at Spotify Exec has been promoted to the role from her previous position as Lead, Artist & Label Partnerships, UK & IE
News NetEase Cloud Music sues rival Tencent Music over ‘unfair competition’ claims NetEase announced the legal proceedings in a social media statement
Interviews ‘I would like to see more women brought into the boardroom. We have come a long way, but still have a lot of work to do.’ In this feature, Cris Falcão, Ingrooves Music Group's Managing Director in Brazil, tells us about her career in the music industry, challenges in the market, and her objectives for 2022
News Could one of these startups become the new TikTok or SoundCloud? Meet Techstars Music class of 2022.
News 135,000 artists are now getting paid through SoundCloud’s Fan-Powered Royalties platform Platform pledges to match 100% of revenue earned by independent artists on Friday, April 29
News Social music creation platform BandLab closes Series B funding round at $65m Prosus Ventures joins list of investors
News Wasserman Music acquires Paradigm’s UK live music business Wasserman Music launched in April 2021 with the acquisition of Paradigm’s North American live music representation business
News Warner Music Group launches in-house podcast network, Interval Presents, led by Allan Coye WMG labels and digital editorial brands will continue to produce podcast content under their own banners
News After teaming up with SoundCloud, Splice partners with African music streaming service, Boomplay Companies to introduce 'beat battle' and new series of sample packs and collections called 'Beyond Afrobeats'
News Having paid $222m to artists in 2021, TuneCore has now surpassed total payouts of $2.5bn Artists using the platform have achieved 500bn streams and 700m downloads
News Glenn Mendlinger promoted to EVP of Republic Records and President of Imperial Music Mendlinger is based out of the company’s global headquarters in New York
Interviews News ‘Web3 will be a building block for every musician in the future.’ Justin Blau tells MBW how Royal wants to be positioned in the music business, and gives us his predictions for the NFT space...