News SoundCloud strikes A&R alliance with Patrick Moxey’s Helix and PayDay Records The partnership will see the music streaming platform identify and refer promising emerging artists on its service for potential signing with Helix or PayDay
News Barry Weiss launches new publishing venture Bossy Songs in partnership with Sony Music Publishing First signing named as songwriter/producer Dan Gleyzer
News Fan engagement and social media platform FENIX360 plans to list on NASDAQ in $610m SPAC merger Singapore-based FENIX360 to combine with blank check company DUET
Analysis Here’s exactly how Spotify’s new 1,000 annual streams royalty policy works… Spotify is introducing a significant update to the way it calculates recorded royalties next year
News Hipgnosis Songs Fund sells 20,000 songs for $23.1m Hipgnosis has not confirmed the name of the buyer
News Apple Music could pay artists more for streams of songs produced in Spatial Audio (report) Spatial Audio is fast becoming a mainstream proposition
News Snoop Dogg appoints Kat MacLean Daley as VP and Head of Publishing at Death Row Records "I know that Kat is the right person to take care of our history, while also helping us write the story for the chapters to come," said Snoop Dogg.
News Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is the first ever tour to gross over $1 billion, says Pollstar Citing box office reports, Pollstar says that Taylor Swift took in an estimated ticket gross of $1.04 billion
Interviews ‘Young Africans are finding their voices. More artists want to be African Giants that are Made in Lagos.’ MBW’s World Leaders series meets Lanre Masha, Director, West Africa at the Orchard
News Veteran US agent John Pantle joins One Fiinix Live, led by Ed Sheeran agent Jon Ollier Agency was launched in 2020 following the end of Ollier’s nearly six-year tenure at CAA
News Brian Miller appointed Chief Revenue Officer at TuneCore He will oversee TuneCore’s Marketing, International, Publishing, Artist Support, Operations, and Artist & Partner Relations teams
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