Music Business Interviews

Why Primary Wave – and the Marley estate – could be sitting on a goldmine with new Bob Marley show, Hope Road

Larry Mestel gives MBW a peek behind the curtain of his company's new Vegas show – and the future of 'name, image, and likeness' in music

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ONErpm’s Emmanuel Zunz: ‘There are no more distribution companies, there are no more record labels. There are just companies providing solutions to creators.’

ONErpm founder Emmanuel Zunz on hitting $300m revenue, the Universal/Downtown deal, and why traditional music industry categories are dead to him

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Naoshi Fujikura on breaking global superstars, Japan’s culture of superfans, and UMG’s positioning in the world’s second-largest music market…

MBW's World Leaders series meets Naoshi Fujikura, President & CEO of Universal Music Japan

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Confidence in a crisis.

When artists are wrongfully accused of transgression, it can be career-ending. One go-to expert in reputation management explains how he helps stars navigate their way back to public acceptability – and why he has firm rules over who he will, and won’t, help…

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‘A manager’s job is to be the last guard at the gate for the artists that they work with in terms of their art. That’s a pretty deep responsibility.’

Chris Woltman on the huge and sustained success of Twenty One Pilots, why record labels still matter, the rock revival, streaming economics and AI

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‘I remember thinking, no way, I’m not doing that, it’s too much pressure.’

MBW’s partnership with the Did Ya Know? podcast continues, with Adrian Sykes talking to Kay Wrate, MD of Warp Publishing

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‘Success is building something that outlasts hype.’

MBW's Trailblazers series meets Justin Garza, founder of talent management company, the Dream Adopters

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Key Songs In The Life Of… Golnar Khosrowshahi

The Reservoir founder selects a magnificent seven tracks that have played a big part in her life and career to date...

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Kobalt’s new publishing platform KOSIGN already represents 12k songs… where is it going next?

MBW meets Jason Feinberg, Senior Vice President and Head of Kobalt's new publishing platform, KOSIGN

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UMPG’s David Gray on UK music, global ambitions, and why breaking artists still matters

Last year, David Gray was flying high at Universal Music Publishing Group in the States as a globally respected A&R exec. Then he was offered his ‘dream job’ of running the publisher’s UK company – a role that’s now underway. MBW meets him in London...

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Rezonate plans to spend $1 billion buying producer catalogs over the next 5 years. Here’s why… and how.

MBW's Trailblazers series meets Cam Blackwood and Tom Tyler, co-founders of Rezonate Music Rights

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Vinit Thakkar talks Sony Music India, artist development, M&A, and more: ‘The Indian music market is at a transformative stage.’

MBW’s World Leaders series meets Vinit Thakkar, Managing Director of Sony Music India

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Music Business Worldwide

Music Business Interviews

Why Primary Wave – and the Marley estate – could be sitting on a goldmine with new Bob Marley show, Hope Road

ONErpm’s Emmanuel Zunz: ‘There are no more distribution companies, there are no more record labels. There are just companies providing solutions to creators.’

Naoshi Fujikura on breaking global superstars, Japan’s culture of superfans, and UMG’s positioning in the world’s second-largest music market…

Confidence in a crisis.

‘A manager’s job is to be the last guard at the gate for the artists that they work with in terms of their art. That’s a pretty deep responsibility.’

‘I remember thinking, no way, I’m not doing that, it’s too much pressure.’

‘Success is building something that outlasts hype.’

Key Songs In The Life Of… Golnar Khosrowshahi

Kobalt’s new publishing platform KOSIGN already represents 12k songs… where is it going next?

UMPG’s David Gray on UK music, global ambitions, and why breaking artists still matters

Rezonate plans to spend $1 billion buying producer catalogs over the next 5 years. Here’s why… and how.

Vinit Thakkar talks Sony Music India, artist development, M&A, and more: ‘The Indian music market is at a transformative stage.’

‘Songwriters are at the bottom of the earning scale – and that is unfathomable, inexcusable and disgusting’

‘Music fans nowadays are so immersed in the online world, they can see what’s real and what’s manufactured.’

Key Songs In The Life Of… Scott Cutler