News Spotify appoints Austin Daboh as Head of Shows & Editorial in the UK Exec steps up to succeed his former boss, George Ergatoudis
Analysis News Live Nation’s half-year revenues have grown by more than 100% since 2010 Company on course for another $10bn-plus sales year in 2018
Analysis News Spotify: 7 things you need to know about the company’s financial health and its Q2 results Free users, premium users, churn, Tencent, Daniel Ek, direct licensing - it's all here...
News XL Recordings turned over $67m last year… despite only releasing 9 new albums Those records included efforts from Sampha, The XX and Nines
News Drake has generated over $100m on Apple Music and Spotify alone Canadian superstar has racked up over 23bn streams on the two services
Interviews ‘Artists with longevity are like athletes – they always want to see how they can get better.’ Joie Manda on a career in hip-hop, and why the genre's been 'having a moment for 40 years'
Uncategorized ‘A lot of artists end up frustrated if they sign away their independence.’ Following a period of rapid global expansion, Ditto Music now has 19 offices around the world – and says it’s investing to build the music industry model of the future...
Interviews Merck Mercuriadis wants to raise a billion dollars. And then he wants to change the face of the music business. The veteran manager tells MBW why hes raising such vast sums of money to buy copyrights
Analysis News Spotify is worth more than $33bn, as stock price hits another all-time high Market value of Pandora has also soared over the past three months
News The real story of Drake, Spotify, Apple Music and the record-breaking streams of Scorpion Spotify had a bigger worldwide number in week one - but Apple was king of the US
News Merck Mercuriadis fund pays $23m to buy 75% stake in The-Dream catalog Deal includes 302 songs, performed by the likes of Justin Bieber, Beyoncé, Rihanna and Jay-Z
Analysis News Music streams in the US grew by over 118bn in the first half of 2018 – the biggest jump in history Total audio streams grew year-on-year by more than 80bn in six months to end of June
Interviews Can Kobalt’s AWAL rewrite the rules of A&R? Willard Ahdritz’s latest venture is trying to reduce the risk of music industry artist development. He might just be on to something...
Analysis The music business just got spanked by Google. Surely it’s now time to speak with one voice. Why did the music industry just lose a crucial vote? And why isn't anybody asking the question?
News Tencent Music Entertainment to file for $30bn US IPO this week – report New York Stock Exchange application expected this Friday