Music Business Interviews

Concord has $550m in fresh funding, a recent expansion in Australasia and now a new CEO. What’s its next move?

Bob Valentine answers MBW's questions on his leadership plans and the state of the acquisitions marketplace

Viberate’s Vasja Veber on offering premium analytics to a wider audience and the ‘democratization of data’

Viberate's Vasja Veber tells us more about the Viberate for Artists platform, and offers his predictions for the future of the independent artist space...

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‘The industry has learned its lesson.’

For 20 years at BMG and Universal, Rob Wells was the music industry’s go-to digital guru. Then he quit. After enduring a ‘trainwreck’ at Crowdmix, he’s now back as CEO of fast-growing rights management company Orfium...

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‘We are smarter if we are together, rather than working in isolation.’

MBW’s World Leaders series interviews Cécile Rap-Veber, CEO of France-based CMO Sacem

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‘There’s a safe room we go to where the two of us can say anything to each other.’

Boy (George Merrill) Meets Girl (Shannon Rubicam) discuss writing 1980s mega-hits How Will I Know and I Wanna Dance With Somebody, their experience as artists, divorce, trust and rediscovering their passion for writing...

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‘People really like music. But the music industry lets everyone else capture the value.’

Travis Rosenblatt talks Meddling and much more besides on the latest MBW Podcast

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‘Amazon Music operates at 100 miles per hour, at all times. That’s fine. It matches mine and the team’s ambition’

Laura Lukanz, Amazon Music’s principal point person for the industry in the UK, looks back on her time in radio and then management, and discusses the power and future of streaming…

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Utopia wants to be the ‘operating system’ for the music industry, and 3 other things we learned from founder Mattias Hjelmstedt’s new interview

In a rare interview on the Dealmakers podcast with Alejandro Cremades, Utopia founder Mattias Hjelmstedt dropped some hints as to what has been happening with the company

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Key Songs In The Life Of… Gary Gersh

AEG's President of Global Touring and Talent talks us through the tracks that have meant the most to him

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Will Page on streaming pricing, music’s revenue ‘pie’ – and why the global record industry is more local than ever

The author and former Chief Economist at Spotify discusses multiple hot topics with MBW founder Tim Ingham

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‘Madizin Music is redefining the traditional relationship between artists and labels.’

Madizin Music Managing Director Pat Benzner on Schlager, Deutchpop and Germany's music business...

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‘In terms of a mass market, the algorithm has already won. But for more specialist stuff, I don’t think there’s ever been a more important role for the curator.’

Pioneering DJ Gilles Peterson reflects on his time behind the microphone and in the business…

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Instrumental invites independent labels to join its AI-powered ‘Label Builder’ program – with guaranteed 20% streaming revenue growth

Conrad Withey and team explain Instrumental's confidence in promising indie label clients a revenue uplift from streaming

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‘Some of the most successful and prominent talent that I’ve worked with are also some of the most shrewd and commercial minds that I’ve worked with.’

Adrian Sykes talks to one of the UK music industry’s most prominent and respected lawyers, Nick Eziefula...

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‘We don’t bow to pressure from numbers on a screen. It’s about your artistry and how you speak to your fans.’

MBW's Inspiring Women series interviews Twiggy Rowley, who co-manages Charli XCX alongside her business partner Sam Pringle and Brandon Creed in the US