News Lanre Gaba promoted to Co-President, Black Music for Atlantic Records Executive celebrates her 20th anniversary with the label this year
News From BMG’s alliance with investment firm Pimco, to Sir Lucian Grainge’s 2022 message: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter
News Round Hill Music buys catalog from White Snake’s David Coverdale, strikes deal with Nancy Wilson from Heart Coverdale deal includes hits like Here I Go Again and Crying in the Rain
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