Warner Music Group In The News

‘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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Warner Music partners with MediMusic, marking its first music therapy deal

The collaboration aims to harness the power of music to ease pain, anxiety and stress through clinical trials of personalized playlists.

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From SoundCloud’s profitability to Universal’s $50bn+ public valuation… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

Five of the biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days

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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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Universal launches Beat Galaxy music hub on Roblox, featuring ‘one of the largest song catalogs of any experience’ on the gaming platform

UMG partnered with virtual world developer Supersocial to launch the new music hub

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Warner’s ADA Worldwide strikes global distribution deal with historical music label Omnivore

Omnivore specializes in historical releases and reissues, as well as previously unreleased vintage recordings.

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Universal Music Greater China appoints former Warner exec Ming Lu as VP of Artist Development and Entertainment Strategy

Ming Lu signed and developed a number of successful hip-hop acts at Warner Music

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SoundCloud strikes A&R alliance with Patrick Moxey’s Helix and PayDay Records

The partnership will see the music streaming platform identify and refer promising emerging artists on its service for potential signing with Helix or PayDay