Music Business Interviews

‘It is a Herculean task, managing an artist in 2021.’

Matt Colon, Global President of Music at YM&U tells MBW about the firm's expansion plans, success with NFTs, and above all, the challenges of being an artist manager in 2021…

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‘There’s trap doors everywhere in this game. The secret is being able to navigate them.’

John Dawkins was recently upped to Managing Director of Various Artists, following Platinum-selling success with Tom Grennan. Here, he tells us his story and gives his views on the modern UK business...

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Primary Wave has over $1 billion to spend on music rights… and it’s not wasting any time

Primary Wave boss Larry Mestel answers MBW's end-of-2021 questions

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‘Competition is good, it drives us and makes us all want to be better.’

Grammy-winning songwriter Hillary Lindsey discusses her scrapped artist career, songwriting technique, imposter syndrome and the streaming remuneration debate.

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‘Copyright-free music is seen as poor quality, cheap and mass market. Our goal is to remove that stigma.’

The idea of releasing music that has no copyright attached to it would probably seem absurd to most people working in the music industry. NoCopyrightSounds (NCS) would disagree...

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Lucas Keller: My Manifesto

Lucas Keller, Milk & Honey founder and songwriter advocate, lists the five things he wants to change about the music business… in typically forthright fashion

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‘There are still a lot of artists that deserve to live off their music. I would like it to happen faster.’

MBW interviews Sylvain Delange, Managing Director of Believe Asia Pacific, about the company's strategy in the Asia Pacific region...

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‘Telcos have recognized that music is a major passion point for consumers.’

MBW interviews Tuned Global Chief Revenue Officer Spiro Arkoudis about the current state of the telco x music deal market...

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‘The music industry revolves around the song.’

ABBA songwriter Björn Ulvaeus discusses his songwriting craft, creative partnership with Benny Andersson, and offers his perspective on the modern music scene.

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Meet the organization that’s distributed over $250m in mechanical royalties to rightsholders this year

Kris Ahrend, CEO of The MLC, on The Mechanical Licensing Collective's first year

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‘If you worry about what everybody else is doing, forget it – that’s not the key to success’

As part of MBW's World's Greatest Managers series, Deborah Kline discusses revitalising and empowering 'under-serviced' established artists

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‘We are taking Afrobeats to the world.’

In the latest in MBW's World Leaders interview series, we speak to Don Jazzy, founder of Nigeria-based Mavin Records

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For a fund with over $1bn to spend on music rights, Tempo is rather quiet. It likes things that way.

Tempo CEO Josh Empson explains his Providence-owned fund's strategy in the music business

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Meet the executive who was investing in music rights long before it was fashionable.

Darren Michaelson, a long-time investor into music, gives his view on the market and where it's going

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‘The music industry can feel like playing the lottery for musicians. But those building communities on Twitch are getting rewarded.’

Twitch's Tracy Chan answers MBW's questions