Analysis News From Universal’s $50m deal in Thailand to TikTok’s new music streaming service… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The headlines from the past week you can't afford to miss...
Analysis News TikTok launches premium-only ‘TikTok Music’ streaming service – and it’s licensed by all three majors TikTok launches Spotify rival in Brazil and Indonesia
Analysis News Queen shows no sign of fading into history as band’s earnings jump 4.3% to $50m in 2022 Latest annual report published by Queen Productions Ltd.
Analysis TikTok’s parent has launched an AI music making app. What might this mean for the video platform’s music licensing talks? How might the launch of Ripple, an AI-powered music making app, play into the short-form video platform's future licensing negotiations
Analysis Taylor Swift’s ‘Taylor’s Version’ re-records may be exceeding even her high expectations MBW crunches the latest streaming figures for Swift's catalog, and mulls what it means for her masterplan
Analysis Universal is spending $50 million to boost its market share in Thailand. Expect more M&A activity in Asia to follow. The majority-acquisition of RS Group in Thailand may indicate that more M&A swoops are on the way from Universal
Analysis Blog ‘Clustering reduces the risk of the wrong rights owners being paid and assists in making performer line-ups as complete and consistent as possible.’ PPL’s Chief Information Officer Mark Douglas examines the potential for ‘clustering’ to help solve problems ranging from accuracy to fraud…
Analysis News Spotify had 44.4m US subscribers in February, Apple Music had 32.6m, according to new data Stats were revealed at the NMPA annual meeting on June 14
Analysis News Meet Ripple: TikTok parent’s new AI-powered music-making app that can turn a hummed melody into a song ByteDance's free-to-use music production app features: a 'Melody to Song' generator and a virtual recording studio
Analysis News Reservoir buys catalogs of four members of R&B and pop vocal legends The Spinners New York-based music rights company announces its latest deal
Analysis The 3 major music companies employed over 27,000 people between them last year – up by 6,660 on 2017 MBW digs into the filings of the Big Three to reveal how many people were employed by their organizations in 2022
Analysis History shows Elon Musk will have a fight on his hands from that music publisher lawsuit The NMPA's litigious history suggests Twitter's owner may face an uphill battle
Analysis News Snafu launches AI-powered ‘Snafu Song Fund’ financing for indie artists backed by $7m round led by Pophouse Entertainment New funding round also saw participation from music manager Marc Jordan through his investment fund Blue Amber Investments
Analysis News Exclusive: Scooter Braun wanted to sell Taylor Swift her masters. What happened? If you were gripped by MBW's investigation into this saga last week... buckle up
Analysis News The US recorded music industry grew by $500m on a wholesale basis in 2022. The US music publishing industry grew by nearly double that amount. Boosted by CRB result and record performance income, the US music publishing industry flew last year