News Triari ‘Ari’ Senawirawan named Managing Director of Warner Music Indonesia Current MD Toto Widjojo is stepping down at the end of April
News From Reservoir’s $788m valuation to Spotify and Warner’s canoodling: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Poo Bear inks JV with Def Jam for his label Bearthday Music He has amassed nearly 300 major songwriting and production credits
News Warner Music Group and Spotify strike podcast development deal Original podcasts to be built around WMG’s artists’ and songwriters’ catalogs
News Tencent Music gets new CEO as Cussion Pang takes new role Zhu Liang (Ross Liang) appointed as Chief Executive Officer
News African music service uduX launches PopRev, an investment platform that lets fans buy shares in artists’ music Platform to launch in partnership with Nigeria-based FinTech firm PiggyVest
News Warner Music Asia launches Pan-Asian dance label, Whet Records First signing is producer and DJ Lizzy Wang
News Triller has a new CEO… having just acquired 3 companies in 5 weeks Amplify.ai co-founder and CEO Mahi de Silva named CEO of TrillerNet, as Mike Lu transitions to role of President
News Sherri Sosa joins Live Nation to oversee portfolio of 100+ venues in the US Exec hired as President of Venue Nation
Interviews UnitedMasters’ Steve Stoute: ‘Record companies’ ownership in artists’ intellectual property will diminish.’ Steve Stoute tells MBW about what Apple's investment means for UnitedMasters and gives us his predictions for the future role of record labels in the music industry...
News After selling stake to Live Nation, Veeps equips 60+ US venues with livestream technology Venues to get new tech include The Fillmore in San Francisco and Philadelphia, House of Blues in Chicago and New Orleans, The Wiltern in Los Angeles
News Cooking Vinyl launches catalog division with ‘aggressive acquisition policy’, headed by Steve Bunyan New department will be headed up by catalog industry veteran Steve Bunyan
News Spotify is officially a hardware maker now, as Car Thing arrives in the US Music streaming company's voice controlled smart device gets limited US release
News Brooke Salisbury promoted to General Manager of Warner’s ADA in the UK Exec joined ADA UK as Marketing Director in 2020
News Germany’s recorded music revenues grew 9% to $2bn last year, thanks to streaming’s lockdown boom Streaming surges ahead in Germany, as CD continues to slide