News Denis Ladegaillerie’s consortium now owns 94.99% of Believe, as ex-Shazam boss joins company board Four months after Ladegaillerie launched bid with EQT and TCV, we're nearly at the finish line
News Amra has invested more than $50m in its tech to date – with most of it spent in the past 3 years The company claims that these enhancements have directly resulted in an uplift in revenues
News Harmonix co-founder Alex Rigopulos and esteemed lawyer Priyanka Khimani join Songtradr board Songtradr says duo will help company in its next phase of global growth
Analysis How Sony’s $6bn+ M&A splurge has set the pace for music acquisitions over the past decade Rob Stringer claimed last month that Sony has outstripped spending at other major companies
Analysis Hipgnosis Songs Fund’s catalog turned out to be worth more than a lot of people thought. In light of Blackstone's latest bid, MBW crunches the numbers on what HSF spent on assets... and what they're worth now
Interviews Key Songs In The Life Of… Max Lousada MBW hands our turntable over to Max Lousada, Global CEO of Recorded Music at Warner Music Group
Analysis Sony generated $2.5bn from recorded music and publishing in calendar Q1 2024, up 14.7% YoY Sony's corporate music division posted annual revenues of nearly $11 billion in the 12 months to end of March
Analysis Spotify is playing a dangerous game… This article originally appeared within the latest MBW+ Monthly Review email, issued exclusively to MBW+ subscribers.
Analysis News The train has left the station: AI music platform Udio is already spitting out 10 songs a SECOND You might remember Udio: That’s the US-headquartered company co-created by ex-employees of Google’s DeepMind AI division
News Confirmed: Better Noise Music sold 50% of its catalog for ‘around $100 million’ in 2022, is now reinvesting into expansion Dan Waite and Steve Kline confirm deal was reached two years ago, as hard rock label eyes bigger ambitions
News Sir Lucian Grainge confirms ‘greater compensation’ is coming from TikTok for UMG artists and songwriters MBW obtains memo from Sir Lucian Grainge to his employees, detailing new agreement with TikTok
News Blackstone launches $1.57 billion bid for Hipgnosis Songs Fund; HSF board recommends offer to shareholders With debt taken into account, Blackstone's latest offer values HSF at approximately USD $2.177 billion
News After Concord bids $1.511bn for Hipgnosis Songs Fund, Blackstone tells HSF shareholders: Don’t move a muscle, we’ll be right back It's all about those "irreovcables"...
News Amid controversy over Spotify’s songwriter payments, Daniel Ek cashes out $118.8 million in company shares Ek's move on the New York Stock Exchange comes amid criticism for Spotify for reducing the royalty rate via which it pays songwriters in the US
Interviews Milk & Honey now represents Travis Kelce and 80 other sports stars – but its world still ‘revolves around the songwriter’ Lucas Keller talks Travis Kelce, Spotify, A&R, and where his company is headed