News Pimco, one of the world’s biggest investment firms, turns its attention to music rights Pimco strikes alliance with BMG to jointly acquire song copyrights
News Amber Grimes joins LVRN as Executive Vice President/GM and Partner Grimes joins LVRN after three years at Capitol Records
News Reservoir buys publishing catalog of Grammy-winning DJ, songwriter, and producer Fred Rister Deal includes several collaborations with David Guetta
News Janelle Curtis appointed Chief Enterprise Transformation Officer of Warner Music Group WMG says that she will spearhead the company’s "ongoing tech-enabled evolution" across its global corporate operations
News Read Sir Lucian Grainge’s 2022 message to Universal Music Group’s workforce 'Universal Music truly is a category of one,' writes Sir Lucian Grainge
News Primary Wave spends $60m on stakes in Paul Rodgers and America catalogs Primary Wave acquires again
News AmazeVR secures $15m funding for virtual concert tech that uses Unreal Engine-based visual effects Los Angeles-based company’s total raised is $30.8m
News Warner acquires Africa-based music distributor Africori WMG says that Africori will continue to operate as an independent company, with current CEO, Yoel Kenan, remaining in post
News Tencent to acquire gaming device maker Black Shark to help it build the Metaverse (report) Black Shark to shift focus to virtual reality, says report
News Italy’s entire Top 20 albums and Top 10 singles in 2021 were from local artists Taxi Driver by Rkomi was the No.1 album in 2021
News Cosmos Music buys Ace Records catalog, including recordings by Etta James, B.B. King and more Catalog amounts to some 9,000 masters and 3,000 compositions
News Germany generated 165bn music streams in 2021… almost a fifth more than in 2020 716 million streams were generated on December 24 alone
News Arjun Pulijal named President of Capitol Music Group Arjun Pulijal first joined Capitol in 2013 as a Director of Marketing
Analysis News At least $5 billion was spent on music rights acquisitions in 2021. Could 2022 be even bigger? MBW rifles back through our 2021 headlines to get a grip on just how huge a year it was for music rights buyouts
Analysis News From WMG’s $250m David Bowie deal to catalog claiming 82% of the US market: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter