News Tom Connaughton exits role as Managing Director for the UK and Ireland at Spotify Exec leaves music streaming platform after nearly six years
News David Dollimore launches Disorder Records in partnership with Geffen First partnership announcement also arrives with Manchester’s The Warehouse Project
News Enrique Iglesias sells catalog to Influence Media Partners in nine-figure deal (report) Agreement also marks Influence Media's first-ever Name, Image, and Likeness deal
News HarbourView ups credit facility capacity by $100m to buy more music rights HarbourView’s credit facility capacity has been increased to $300m
News PULSE Music Group forms Supermoon Songs JV with Grammy-winning songwriter and producer Dan Wilson Artist, songwriter, and instrumentalist Paul Dally is the first signing to Supermoon Songs
News Elliot Grainge’s 10K Projects makes key executive appointments, including General Counsel and CFO Blake Brown-Grakal named General Counsel, Samuel Cohen named General Manager, and Max Gore named CFO
News Paul Hitchman promoted to Global COO role at AWAL Based in London, Hitchman will continue to report to AWAL CEO Lonny Olinick
News Music creation company Muse Group acquires sheet music publisher Hal Leonard… with backing from private equity firm Francisco Partners Francisco Partners acquired a majority stake in Kobalt Music Group in 2022
News Over 75,000 artists in 20+ countries can now sell concert tickets directly within the TikTok app TikTok expands ticketing partnership with Live Nation-owned Ticketmaster
News Spotify to axe over 1,500 jobs in latest round of layoffs Spotify is slashing around 17% of its global workforce
News Jenny Hermanson, Spotify’s MD for the Nordic region, to exit company after 14 years SPOT's Sweden-based MD for the Nordic region, Jenny Hermanson, is leaving the company
Interviews ‘Spinnin’ Records has an independent approach, but with major opportunities on both a local and worldwide level.’ MBW's World Leaders series interviews Ewout Swart and Roger De Graaf, Co-Presidents of Warner Music Group-owned Spinnin’ Records
Analysis Interviews Sony Music has issued nearly 10,000 deepfake takedowns… and other things we learned from Dennis Kooker’s speech about AI Sony Music's President of Global Digital Business delivered a speech at Chuck Schumer's AI Insight Forum
News TikTok leans further into music with new Artist Accounts for musicians 'Artist Accounts' feature various promotional tools for musicians