News From Hipgnosis raising $210m to Warner spending $100m: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past five days in music
News Warner Music spends over $100m to buy David Guetta recordings catalog Is Warner Music Group leaning towards hits created in the past 20 years?
News ‘Loyal, passionate, hilarious’: Music biz mourns EMI’s Ashley Forbes Popular Scottish executive worked at EMI Records / Virgin Records for over 30 years
News Sony Music buys the UK’s largest independent podcast maker, Somethin’ Else “Our new global podcast division is key to our plans for a fast-paced expansion in the market, diversifying our creative abilities and providing a home for exciting content that will benefit millions of podcast-lovers around the world.”
News Hipgnosis is raising another $210 million via a new share issue on London Stock Exchange Firm says money will buy a "substantial pipeline of songs"
News Opulous just raised $6.5 million. Now it wants more artists to sell NFTs through its platform. Artists can sell both copyright NFTs and non-copyright NFTS through platform, thanks to recent Binance partnership
News Darcus Beese is joining Warner Music UK, launching a new JV label with major Beese joins Warner after 13 years with Universal Music and Island Records
News Epidemic Sound Chairwoman Vania Schlogel joins Hipgnosis board as Non-Exec Director Former KKR executive and founder of Atwater Capital previously sat on the board of BMG
News DEAG and Kilimanjaro acquire British promoter UK Live Ltd News comes as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson delays re-opening for mass gatherings until July
News From Sony’s historic unrecouped balances move to Universal funding [PIAS]: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the past five days – and why they matter
News In historic move, Sony Music is disregarding unrecouped balances for heritage catalog artists Rob Stringer-led company meets demand from artist advocates – a policy that some believed a major record company would never openly adopt
News Vancouver-based A&R company Reliant Music expands into Europe John Dexter's company makes international move as its business grows
News Believe is a public company, as CEO Denis Ladegaillerie rings bell on Paris stock market debut Believe will use €300 million raised to acquire music companies over the next three years
News Paradise launches government-backed TRIDES project in Germany to identify ‘unknown audio content’ – and get creators paid Paradise MD Ralph Boege walks MBW through government-funded industry solution
News Roblox says $200m+ copyright lawsuit is based on a ‘fundamental misunderstanding’. Music publishers disagree. Both parties are accusing each other of not knowing the law