News 3 things the major labels can learn from Big Hit, home of BTS Lessons from Bang Si-hyuk's comments at Big Hit's Corporate Briefing last week
News JioSaavn’s Artist Originals partners with licensing startup SyncFloor Artist Originals tracks are now searchable and license-ready to creators using SyncFloor
News Steve Clark joins Round Hill Music as Global Chief Operating Officer Clark joins Round Hill from Warner Chappell Music where he spent over two decades
News UMPG and Riot Games partner on esport-themed songwriting camp in China, with songs to be used for 2020 League of Legends World Championship 2019 League of Legends World Championship attracted over 100m viewers
News BTS label Big Hit saw revenues rocket to $249m in the first half of 2020… partly thanks to livestreamed concerts Figures were revealed during the Big Hit Corporate Briefing
News Modern Sky inks sub-publishing deal with The Royalty Network for Chinese catalog in North America Catalog will be overseen and managed by Modern Sky UK
News Kleopatra Sofroniou promoted to General Manager Classics at Deutsche Grammophon Exec has worked with Universal Music Group over the past 15 years
News Lickd partners with Warner to make music available to YouTube creators 'Deals such as this are expanding the horizons of the digital music market.'
News The UK’s One Media iP Group raises $8m to buy music rights Company plans to buy copyrights in performance and writers shares
News Facebook now allows creators to earn money from online events Owners of Pages in 20 countries can now start charging for online events
News Lizzo granted motion to dismiss Truth Hurts copyright infringement suit Suit was dismissed by a judge in California on August 14
News Apple launches two new live global radio stations, Hits and Country, rebrands Beats 1 as Apple Music 1 Apple Music Radio features live and exclusive original shows
News Cindy Gu appointed Head of Astralwerks Asia, label signs Indonesian EDM group Weird Genius Exec joins UMG from Warner Music Asia
News Universal inks global licensing deal with B2B music streaming service Soundtrack Your Brand Company works with brands such as McDonald’s, Lululemon, J Crew and others
News Tencent Music and Thailand’s biggest record label strike pact to ‘co-create content’ Partnership will make use of TME's Karaoke app WeSing