Posts by Murray Stassen

ByteDance has been building an AI music beast… with a little help from The Beatles and Michael Jackson

ByteDance is fascinated with building music AI technologies...

Kevin Ferguson appointed Senior Vice President, Technology at TuneCore

Ferguson previously led the engineering team at BentoBox and has also held leadership roles at Audible and other companies

AP Music Royalties Fund spends $20m+ across trio of deals with Mojam, Ed Drewett and ex-Status Quo members

Switzerland-based company strikes trio of music rights deals

Sony Music Publishing renews global deal with K-Pop specialist The Hello Group Publishing

THG Publishing's roster of songwriters and producers are behind various K-Pop and J-Pop hits

Neil Jacobson’s Hallwood Media inks JV with 9th St, the management company behind Rich Amiri

9th St's roster has amassed over 1.5 billion streams across various DSPs over the past 12 months

Warner Music Group completes full acquisition of Africa-based music distributor Africori

Company represents more than 7,000 artists.

Tomás Talarico to oversee Warner Music’s business in Argentina and Chile, as Managing Director, Southern Cone

Talarico succeeds respected executive Guillermo Castellani, who has stepped down from the position

Henry Naldjian promoted to Chief Technology Officer at Sony Music Publishing

Exec to oversee company’s ongoing "technological transformation efforts"

NewJeans change name to NJZ – but HYBE’s ADOR insists that it’s ‘committed to protecting the value of the NewJeans brand’

'We deeply regret that the members have unilaterally made this choice,' said HYBE's ADOR

Alfonso Perez-Soto and Michael LoBiondo join Michael Ryan Southern’s M&A team at Warner Music Group

Company seeks to 'turbocharge its growth' via M&A

Julie Adam promoted to CEO of Universal Music Canada; Jeffrey Remedios appointed President, Strategic Development, for REPUBLIC Collective

Both appointments are effective immediately

Mike Harris named CEO of UMG Nashville; Dave Cobb appointed Chief Creative Officer

Cindy Mabe, Chair and CEO of UMG Nashville since April 2023, is leaving the company "to pursue new opportunities".

Cindy Mabe exits as CEO of Universal Music Group Nashville

Exec was appointed Chair and CEO of UMGN in April, 2023

Warner has a new deal with Amazon Music… and 4 other things we learned from Robert Kyncl on WMG’s latest earnings call

WMG's leadership team conducted the company's calendar Q4 earnings call on February 6. MBW listened in, here's what stood out...

Brian ‘Busy’ Dackowski named Executive Vice President/Head of Pop/Rock Digital Marketing at Capitol Records

Exec will be based in Capitol’s Los Angeles headquarters