Interviews Lucas Keller on ambition, songwriters, BMI – and what he’d do if he ran a major record company As Milk & Honey turns 10 years old, company founder Lucas Keller joins MBW's World's Greatest Managers series. He has some views...
News After growing Warner Chappell revenues by 93%, Guy Moot and Carianne Marshall ink new 5-year deals to run publisher Robert Kyncl pays tribute to duo, who are now contracted through to 2028
News Thomas Coesfeld’s first big move as BMG boss: A major distribution shake-up BMG agrees to split with ADA, with streaming distribution going in-house at Bertelsmann-owned company
News Hipgnosis’ Blackstone fund set to spend $440m buying 29 catalogs from Hipgnosis’ UK-listed fund; competitors have 40 days to try and outbid its offer. Public fund is also looking to sell another 20,000 songs acquired from Kobalt Capital for $25 million
Analysis Universal and Deezer’s ‘artist-centric’ model isn’t shocking. It emulates tech’s most successful titans. Yes, we're talking about it again. Why? Not enough people have connected the dots to Silicon Valley.
Analysis News Concord is ready to pay $468.8m to buy Round Hill’s UK fund. How did it reach that price? MBW gets out its calculator to pore over Citrin Cooperman's numbers
News Clive Fisher, former Universal Music EVP, dies aged 71; Sir Lucian Grainge leads tributes to exec ‘who loved people’ Fisher spent 33 years in total at Universal Music UK, before continuing to contribute as an adviser to key execs
News Concord set to buy Round Hill’s UK-listed royalty fund in a huge $468.8m deal Under the terms of the acquisition, Round Hill's shareholders will receive USD $1.15 per share in cash.
Analysis News Why Goldman Sachs believes that Spotify will remain the world’s dominant music streaming service in 2030 How much longer can Spotify hold on to its position as the world's biggest music streaming provider in terms of global paid-for subscriptions?
News UMG: ‘Artist-centric’ payments on Deezer can’t exceed 100% of platform’s royalty pool New model will ape streaming's pro-rata model, with a finite pool of royalties divided by market share
Analysis News On… Deezer nuzzling up to Universal’s ‘artist-centric’ model, a potential mass deletion, and a controversial tweak (update) It's been a big day in the music business – and it's raised a lot of possibilities...
News Timothy Xu, former Sony Music boss in China, named CEO and Chairman of Universal Music Greater China China broke into the world's Top 5 recorded music markets in 2022, according to IFPI data
News BMG revenues up 11.5% YoY in H1 2023, hitting $447m, as operating EBITDA grows 22.6% In H1 2023, BMG's operating EBITDA hit €90 million ($97m), up 22.6% YoY
News JKBX, music royalty trading platform, will launch September 12, aiming to become ‘transformative force in music and investing’ Songs that will appear on the platform on day one will include a run of chart hits performed by artists like Beyoncé, Major Lazer, and Taylor Swift