Music Business Interviews

‘We’re very fortunate that someone decided to call this a job.’

MBW’s World’s Greatest Songwriters series celebrates the pop composers behind the globe’s biggest hits. This time, we talk to Grammy and multiple Latin Grammy-winning Edgar Barrera.

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‘German hip-hop audiences not only want to listen to the music, they want to be part of the movement.’

Patrick Mushatsi-Kareba, CEO, Sony Music GSA on the company's hip-hop strategy in Germany, breaking artists, and the success of the genre in the country as a whole...

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‘I’d like to see companies being proactive and not reactive about improving diversity.’

We chat with the newly named VP of Artist Marketing at Motown, Jamila Thomas, about diversity in music, keys to success in marketing and much more besides

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TikTok is evolving into a very different kind of music streaming giant.

Ole Obermann, TikTok's Global Head of Music, discusses opportunities for artists... and a major new launch for indie acts

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‘100 die hard fans are just as powerful as somebody with 100 million followers on Instagram.’

Fave founder Jacquelle Amankonah Horton on the world of internet fandom and how her platform has attracted two of music’s biggest fan communities

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Hartwig Masuch thinks the music industry is putting too much of its money in the wrong places.

The BMG boss opens up on frontline vs catalog investment, and much more

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‘TikTok is running everything.’

Frank Harris on how Jason Derulo reinvented himself on TikTok - and the keys to building a billion dollar brand

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‘People underestimate Colombia – there is so much talent here.’

M3 Music CEO Camila Saravia Arias discusses the highs and lows of working in music in Colombia, the dominance of streaming in the region, and why she thinks broadening out opportunities will result in a healthier music market.

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‘I don’t expect artists to have their s**t organized. That’s what I’m here for.’

Wassim 'Sal' Slaiby on his upbringing in Lebanon, arriving in Canada – and an amazing career in music

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‘Nobody will out-work me and nobody will out-care me; they won’t do it, they can’t do it.’

Chris Kappy talks about managing Luke Combs from half-empty bars to the top of the charts

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‘We always put the songwriter at the centre of everything we do – globally.’

It’s a new era for Sony Music Publishing, with a global rebrand from the historic Sony/ATV name. Here, the leaders of Sony Music Publishing UK explain why the name change is symptomatic of a wider transformation...

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‘Music is supernatural, that’s why I take my job so seriously.’

Alec Boateng, co-President of 0207 Def Jam, gets into his career and the opportunities ahead

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‘The kinship that you create throughout your music career is not something you get in a nine to five office job.’

Storme Whitby-Grubb, recently named Chief Creative Officer at Red Bull Records, discusses her career to date, lessons learned and ambitions in her new role

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Instrumental invested over $4m in independent artists in H1 2021. Now it’s a distributor too.

After Tencent investment, UK-born firm says it wants to become the world's "leading growth team for independent artists"

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‘It’s got to be real, because artists are coming in your buildings and seeing it.’

Alex Boateng, co-President of 0207 Def Jam, on the type of label he wants to build – and definitely doesn't want to build