Music Business Interviews

‘We want music to continue to be an art form the way that it has been; we don’t want it to just be 15-second snippets.’

TikTok’s Ole Obermann discusses the ‘Add To Music App’ feature, ticketing, Tate McRae, subscriptions, delivering revenue, where the company will be in five years and much more

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NetEase Cloud Music wants to be ‘the bridge’ between artists in the West and audiences in China. Here’s how.

In this feature, we speak to Vivian Wei, Vice President of Copyrights at China-headquartered music streaming platform NetEase Cloud Music

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Alfonso Perez-Soto , Warner Music’s President, Emerging Markets, on the ‘huge opportunity in the MENA region’

Exec delivered a keynote interview in Saudi Arabia last week

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‘These archives, they contain gold’: Aviator’s Alex Seidl and Lindsay Jones on the business of rare music content

The co-founders of Aviator join the MBW Podcast

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‘We are looking towards Ed and Taylor right now as the inspiration.’

Drew Simmons talks about the thrills and challenges of managing 2023's breakout star, Noah Kahan

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‘Young Africans are finding their voices. More artists want to be African Giants that are Made in Lagos.’

MBW’s World Leaders series meets Lanre Masha, Director, West Africa at the Orchard

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Michelle Jubelirer on Ice Spice, The Beatles, and reinventing Capitol Music Group: ‘I don’t think any label group has been able to turn things around as quickly as my team and I have done in less than two years.’

Jubelirer tells MBW all about her first two years in charge at CMG – and how she's overcome the challenge of quelling, and then re-energizing, one of the most iconic label brands in existence

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‘Latin artists have been paving the way for deals that offer more control, transparency, and better economics.’

Alejandra Olea, Believe's MD, Americas is interview in MBW's World Leaders series following huge success with Iñigo Quintero

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Jack Antonoff talks Taylor Swift, AI, his new management – and how to avoid deals with the devil

MBW’s World’s Greatest Songwriters series meets Jack Antonoff, one of the most successful songwriters of the modern age...

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Key Songs in the Life of… Denzyl Feigelson

The founder of Platoon (and AWAL, and a key architect of Graceland), Denzyl Feigelson, maps out his life and career in seven songs

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‘Spinnin’ Records has an independent approach, but with major opportunities on both a local and worldwide level.’

MBW's World Leaders series interviews Ewout Swart and Roger De Graaf, Co-Presidents of Warner Music Group-owned Spinnin’ Records

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Sony Music has issued nearly 10,000 deepfake takedowns… and other things we learned from Dennis Kooker’s speech about AI

Sony Music's President of Global Digital Business delivered a speech at Chuck Schumer's AI Insight Forum

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‘You always feel the pressure, but never let the biz get in the way of creativity’

Super-producer Tay Keith on working with Drake and Travis Scott, building a business empire - and why he might just retire from the game and take up teaching when he hits 50

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Please, don’t call it distribution.

JT Myers and Nat Pastor on their plans for Virgin Music Group, competing with The Orchard, and their disdain for the D-word

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‘The best failure that ever could have possibly happened to me’: Regal Credit’s Anthony Davenport on building a business, celebrity stalkers, and prepping for the next recession

The founder of Regal Credit on stalkers, the banking industry, and his personal story