News UK music media entrepreneur and SBTV founder Jamal Edwards dies, aged 31 SBTV has helped launch the careers of some of the UK's biggest stars
Analysis News From SoundCloud’s $218m+ revenues to Snoop Dogg’s $44m+ worth of NFTs: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter
News Spotify acquires two podcast firms, Podsights and Chartable Podsights is a podcast advertising measurement service, and Chartable is a podcast analytics platform
News Peloton releases video game ‘Lanebreak’, with Warner Music Group as a launch partner The first artist themed levels to launch on Lanebreak are two Warner-distributed artists: David Bowie and David Guetta.
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