News Jay Schumer appointed Executive Vice President, Head of Marketing & Business Development at Island Records Schumer previously worked at Columbia Records, most recently as Executive Vice President / Co-Head of Marketing
News After launching its artist-centric payment model, Deezer unveils new brand identity and redesigned app Company claims to be 'reinventing itself as an experience services platform'.
News Dylan Berthier appointed Chief People and Culture Officer at Kobalt Berthier joins from Activision Blizzard
Interviews ‘The catalog acquisition business requires not just capital, but long-standing trust, reputation, and rapport.’ MBW's World Leaders series interviews Jangwon Lee, CEO of Korea-based catalog buying fund Beyond Music
News Alexandra Condon appointed as VP of Public Policy and Government Affairs at Warner Music Group Exec will act as the company’s primary point of contact for policymakers in the EU and its member states
News Did Anthropic just reveal how it will try to beat Universal’s landmark music copyright lawsuit? Anthropic responds to the Copyright Office’s Notice of Inquiry on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
News Universal Music renews deal with Chinese pop megastar Eason Chan Since joining UMG, Eason Chan has amassed over 75bn streams across all platforms
News Sean Michael Gross promoted to Vice President, Warner Classics UK & North America Gross has headed up Warner Classics in the UK since joining the company in 2021
News BMG to speed up payments to US publishing clients when their songs are used on recordings released by BMG’s US artists Mechanicals will now be paid within the same quarter
Analysis News From HYBE’s $400m+ in Q3 to Kobalt’s partnership with Morgan Stanley… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days
Analysis News Live Nation has already sold 140m tickets to its shows this year – 19m more than in the whole of 2022 Concert promoter posted revenues of $8.2bn across all of its divisions in Q3, up 32% YoY
News Concord acquires Round Hill’s UK fund, after $469m sale was approved by latter firm’s shareholders last month Deal includes over 150,000 songs and 51 catalogs
News Mariah Carey faces new copyright lawsuit over ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’ A musician called Andy Stone is suing Carey for allegedly copying elements of his song of the same name
Analysis News Sales from Seventeen, Jungkook and other BTS solo stars drove HYBE’s revenues to over $400m in Q3 South Korea-based entertainment giant HYBE has published its financial results for Q3
News Sony Music sues cosmetics brand OFRA for using recordings by Mariah Carey, Britney Spears and other artists in social media ads without permission Lawsuit was filed in Florida on Tuesday (October 31)