News Molly Neuman appointed President of Downtown Music-owned CD Baby Industry veteran to lead Downtown Music's direct-to-creator businesses CD Baby and Soundrop
News Sony, Universal, Warner and Merlin strike music licensing deals with Twitch for DJ livestreams New deals do not apply to other uses of music on the platform such as VODs, Clips, and Highlights
News Warner Music Group poaches Goldman Sachs’ Michael Ryan-Southern to lead global M&A Widely respected finance executive to join WMG
News Sony Music Entertainment strikes JV with D36 to break South Asian Music globally D36 provides a platform to aspiring musicians from South Asia and its diaspora
News Spotify officially launches a music-only subscription tier… in the UK The new tier appears to be available in the UK only at present and costs £10.99 per month
News Live Nation slams AEG boss’s ‘self-serving arguments’ over DoJ investigation In a memo obtained by MBW, AEG Presents Chairman and CEO Jay Marciano referred to Live Nation and its ticketing division Ticketmaster as a 'monopoly'
News Chris Taylor resigns as CEO of MNRK Music Group; Sean Stevenson to lead company Stevenson to lead the company as of July 1, 2024
News Federica Tremolada promoted to General Manager for Europe at Spotify, as Michael Krause exits after 7 years Krause joined Spotify in October 2017
News Universal Music Group forms UMG Global Impact Team led by Susan Mazo New team will 'enact and amplify the company’s vision for positive change through community engagement, environmental sustainability, events and special projects'.
News Spotify hikes prices for Premium subscribers in the US… again Spotify is upping the price of its Premium subscription in the United States to $11.99
News HYBE can’t remove NewJeans label CEO Min Hee-jin… for now The latest developments in the power struggle between Ador's CEO and HYBE
Interviews ‘We don’t look at metrics. We just look at talent.’ PULSE Music Group's Josh Abraham and Scott Cutler talk artist development and Tommy Richman's viral hit MILLION DOLLAR BABY
News Sony Music in talks to acquire Queen catalog in potential $1bn deal (report) Potential deal would become one of the biggest single-artist music catalog sales in history
Analysis News Three quarters of all royalties generated by UK artists on Spotify in 2023 came from listeners outside of the UK Spotify has recently broken out streaming royalty data for a bunch of individual markets in Europe
News Matt Serletic joins Amazon Music as Director of AI Innovation and Interactive Experiences ‘to reimagine how people connect with music in the age of AI’ Serletic headed up Virgin Records in the US between 2002 and 2005