Analysis News Sony Music’s quarterly streaming revenues burst above $1bn for the first time MBW breaks down the numbers in an historic quarter for Rob Stringer's major
Analysis News Is Universal Music Group going to post a $2bn EBITDA profit this year? UMG announces another impressive set of quarterly results – this time as a public company
Analysis News Warner Music Group is worth $10bn more than it was a year ago Universal stays above $50 billion... as its rival's market worth goes gangbusters
Analysis News The name’s bonds. Music bonds. How the genius of Bowie bonds is making a comeback, 14 years after they went away
News Confirmed: Kobalt sells catalog to new KKR venture, Chord, for $1.1 billion Chord brings together KKR with Dundee Partners, the investment office of the Hendel family
News Major record companies feel the heat as UK competition watchdog launches new study into music streaming Competition and Markets Authority to move ahead with new study into market dynamics
News Adele’s Easy On Me shatters BTS’s Spotify record for day-one global plays MBW crunches the numbers to estimate just how much bigger Adele's new record was than BTS's record-setting Butter
Analysis News From Spotify vs. songwriters to Adele vs. our emotions: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up The biggest stories of the past five days – and why they matter
Interviews News What do Blackstone’s billions mean for Merck Mercuriadis’ mission for songwriters? The Hipgnosis founder joins Blackstone's Qasim Abbas in MBW's in-depth interview RE: the deal everyone's talking about
News Official: Blackstone is investing $1 billion in music rights via Merck Mercuriadis and Hipgnosis… and there could be billions more on the way. Blackstone tells MBW "this is just the start" and that its ambition in music is "much more substantial"
News Beggars Group saw revenues dip slightly in 2020 to $79.2m… but profits nearly doubled "A by-product of not being able to promote new releases to the extent we would have liked is that we have seen significantly reduced marketing and promotional expenditure across all labels which has worked its way through to the bottom line."
News Kobalt is selling a music catalog for $1 billion – and KKR is in prime position to buy it The Kobalt fund owns songs by the likes of The Weeknd, Lorde, and Major Lazer
News Warner Music poaches Spotify’s US head of catalog… as catalog’s dominance of streaming keeps growing Los Angeles-based Andre Torres named in new SVP role within Warner's catalog team
News BMG buys bundle of Tina Turner rights in music’s latest big-money deal Deal includes artist’s share of her recordings, plus Turner's music publishing writer’s share