News Rap & production duo Frankie Stew and Harvey Gunn sign with Absolute Duo have more than 21m streams across Spotify and Apple Music
Interviews ‘Downtown is an ideal combination of technology and creativity, with an international mindset built in its DNA.’ Downtown Music Publishing's Laura Bedikian and Charles Braud give MBW an insight into France's publishing sector and the company's position in the market...
News Primary Wave buys publishing and master royalty stream of Gasoline Alley, including works by Sublime Gasoline Alley is an entity owned by music managers Arnold Stiefel and Randy Phillips
News Amanda Samii named Senior Vice President of A&R for Capitol Records Exec joins Capitol after 10 years at Kobalt Music Publishing
News A year after trying to cut songwriters’ pay, Spotify boosts writer visibility with launch of pages feature New feature wins praise from writers – but bad vibes still lurk in the background
News Drake inks exclusive deal with social broadcasting platform Caffeine Caffeine will live stream and co-produce Rap Battles in collaboration with Battle Rap platform, URL
News Dutch rapper Dopebwoy teams with Warner Music to form Forever Lit Records Artist will initially release his own music on the label
News France’s music publishing sector was worth over $450m in 2018 Total revenue was up 7% compared to 2017
News Spotify to pay $250m for the Ringer, bringing its total podcast acquisition spend to $650m in the past 12 months The Ringer is the SPOT's latest acquisition following Parcast, Anchor and Gimlet media in 2019
News Poo Bear inks global publishing deal with peermusic The multi-platinum songwriter/producer has sold over 500m records worldwide
News IMPEL inks licensing deal with Amazon for its music streaming services in Europe IMPEL represents the digital music publishing rights of nearly 50 independent music publishers
News Spotify’s standalone Kids app rolled out in the UK and Australia Standalone app will eventually expand to all markets that have Premium Family
News UK rapper Dave renews global publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music Artist's album Psychodrama hit No.1 in the UK in March 2019
News Napster majority owner RealNetworks to get $10m investment from CEO Rob Glaser 'I am making this investment because I believe the company has a very promising future ahead of it'
News Music making platform Splice has paid out $25m to music creators Payouts made to musicians who distribute their sounds through Splice Sounds