News Sony Music Publishing enters partnership with Grammy-nominated songwriter Jason Evigan’s Chumba Music Chumba Music has also hired Aaron Sander as Head of A&R
News Richelle Parham named President of Global E-Commerce and Business Development at Universal Music Group Exec joins UMG from WestRiver Group, where she served as Managing Director
News DistroKid is now distributing over a million new tracks every month DistroKid also says that it distributes '30-40%' of all new music in the world
News Apple Music exclusives are back: This time with Scriptonite, one of Russia’s biggest rap stars Khazakhstan-born Scriptonite releases via his own label, Musica 36
News Lauren Wirtzer-Seawood joins SoundCloud as Chief Content and Marketing Officer Most recently, Wirtzer-Seawood served as President of UnitedMasters
News Live Nation revenues fell 79% year-on-year in Q1, but it says events are now ‘selling out faster than ever before’ Company has published its financial results for Q1 2021
News Childish Gambino sued for copyright infringement over This is America Emelike Nwosuocha (aka Kidd Wes) claims that his song Made in America was copied
News Corey Sorrento joins Catch Point Rights Partners as Investment Associate Exec joins from media investment banking firm Shot Tower Capital
News Jay-Z, Troy Carter and Andreessen Horowitz join $19m funding round for NFT marketplace Bitski Company lets brands, game developers and consumers create, sell and purchase NFTs
News Beggars Group launches new music supervision business Colourbox Music with Ben Turner and Simon Astall Astall and Turner have worked with directors including Andrea Arnold, Baz Luhrmann, Danny Boyle and David Lynch
News Sophia Bacuros and Deryck Vanderbilt-Nicholson join Troy Carter’s Venice Execs join from HITCO Entertainment and Island Records/4th & B'way, respectively
News BTS label Big Hit (HYBE) generated $161m in revenues in Q1, up 29% year-on-year Company posted a net profit of approximately $14.2m
News Primary Wave buys Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers catalog, including master royalty income stream across Rihanna’s first seven albums 'Multi million dollar deal' includes hits from N’Sync, Kelly Clarkson, Donny Osmond, Nick Jonas and others
News Universal Music Group partners with Simon Cowell’s Syco to offer X Factor Israel winner a record deal News comes nine months after Cowell bought out Sony Music from Syco Entertainment