Analysis News Is Len Blavatnik about to complete the shrewdest deal in the history of the record business? The case for Len Blavatnik having made the smartest acquisitive move in record industry history
News Warner Music Group launches IPO, as firm readies flotation on Nasdaq Some 70 million shares made available for underwriters to sell on by Access Industries
News Spotify tells employees: You can work from home until 2021 Spotify employed 4,405 people on a full-time basis worldwide last year
News Spotify’s market cap value soars by nearly $4bn in wake of landmark Joe Rogan podcast deal Deal with comedian sent company's stock price soaring over next 24 hours
Analysis Spotify’s $100m+ Joe Rogan deal redefines its podcast strategy. Songwriters and record labels should be watching closely. Why Spotify's big money buys might concern music's most powerful rightsholders
Analysis News Goldman Sachs just cut its 2020 paid music streaming revenue forecast by $2.2bn… but the future still looks bright Adjustments to the financial giant's forecasts say much about the future of the music business at large
News Bytedance poaches Disney’s Kevin Mayer to become TikTok’s new CEO Exec recently led the successful launch of Disney Plus
News ‘You can buy No.1s on Billboard’: Tekashi 6ix9ine claims 30,000 Ariana Grande single sales were purchased using 6 credit cards Rapper lets the accusations fly as he misses out on Hot 100 No.1 record
News Reservoir acquires 16,000 copyrights by bringing Shapiro Bernstein into its portfolio Sources tell MBW it's Reservoir's biggest deal yet
News Live Nation set to raise another $1.2bn to boost liquidity during COVID concert shutdown Michael Rapino noted on May 7 that his company had a free cash balance of $817m, combined with $963m in undrawn debt capacity
News Fortnite could get closer to ‘photo-realism’ in 2021 – here’s the video that shows how Epic Games shows off Unreal Engine 5 – and it's what you'd call impressive
News Music made by Artificial Intelligence has started winning awards. Grammys next? "A look into the exciting future of human-AI co-creativity in music" – or an A&R exec's worst nightmare?
News Allen Grubman’s law firm hacked, ‘working around the clock’ as cyberattack group demands $21m "[We] have hired the world’s experts who specialize in this area, and we are working around the clock to address these matters.”
Analysis News Another billion-dollar quarter for Sony Music, as streaming revenues jump 27.4% year-on-year Recorded music revenues rose 13.5% YoY in the quarter
News Universal Music Group accelerates China strategy, with Joe Fang named first ever MD of UMPG in region Hiring represents UMG's first major move in China since Tencent consortium deal was completed