News Avex USA and Sony Music Publishing strike global administration deal SMP will provide worldwide administration services (ex. Japan) to Avex USA’s catalog and roster
News Universal partners with Marc Geiger-backed NFT platform Curio to develop NFTs for its global artists and labels UMG becomes the first major music company to collaborate with Curio
News Riptide Music CEO Keatly Haldeman exits, launches Web3 music sync licensing platform, Dequency Firm has already raised $4.5m through an investment round led by Borderless Capital
News BMG acquires music interests of blues icon John Lee Hooker The acquisition is the latest in a string of recent deals completed by BMG to acquire rights from superstar musicians
News After partnering with Universal, Aerosmith strike global brand management deal with Epic Rights Universal's merchandising arm Bravado fully acquired Los Angeles-based Epic Rights for an undisclosed sum in 2019
Analysis News YouTube is making close to $100m from advertising revenues every day YouTube generated over $28 billion across the course of 2021
News Snoop Dogg sells over $44m worth of ‘Stash Box’ NFTs in just five days News follows the hip hop legend's acquisition of the Death Row Records brand from MNRK Music Group
News Round Hill’s UK fund has acquired 5,600 songs since July, paying an average multiple of 17.9x Fresh information revealed in London Stock Exchange-traded fund's new filing
News Warner Music boss Steve Cooper: ‘The emergence of Web3 is going to further amplify the importance of music labels and publishers.’ Warner Music Group CEO Steve Cooper commented on Web3 on the firm's recent earnings call
News Applications reopen for The Richard Antwi Scholarship in London Scholarship is funded by all three UK major record labels
News Spotify and Amazon each considering takeover bids for UK podcast firm Audioboom (report) Audioboom's shows are downloaded more than 116m times each month
News Labels awarded $83m in lawsuit against operator of stream-ripping sites Over 300m individuals in the US used the sites from October 2017 to May 2021
News Grammy-winning songwriter Jordan Reynolds sells catalog to Warner Chappell, launches brokerage to help other writers do the same thing Reynolds has written six No.1 songs across three genres
Interviews ‘Artists really have to see Web3 as more than just a glorified fan club for the 21st Century.’ RCRDSHP founder Obie Fernandez on the future of the NFT market and the potential impact that Web3 could have on the music industry...
News Warner Music Group launches Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Institute Institute to offer range of educational programming from third-party experts and an Innovation Lab for employees