Warner Music Group In The News

Beatport-owned LabelRadar partners with Defected, giving label access to artist demo submissions

Defected Records is the latest label to utilize LabelRadar’s platform, joining the likes of Toolroom, Armada, Monstercat, Mixmash, Heldeep, Anjuna, NCS, Blanco y Negro, Drumcode and more

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Universal just launched a fan platform in Germany that sounds a lot like its own version of Weverse. Here’s what’s in it…

Universal Music Germany has launched YOUniverse, a 'virtual and interactive fan platform…where fans can meet and interact, and in future even meet their idols'.

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Alli Galloway appointed Chief Marketing Officer at Jaxsta, Jessy Trengove named Chief Product Officer

Galloway will be joining newly appointed Chief Executive Officer, Josh Simons, and Chief Financial Officer Jorge Nigalioni in the company’s updated C-Suite.

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Roger de Graaf and Ewout Swart named Co-Presidents of Spinnin’ Records

The move will see De Graaf focus on artist relations and creative projects, while Swart will concentrate on on operations and global acceleration

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JKBX, launching this week, confirms it will pay songwriters and artists direct via ‘Creator Program’ – even if they don’t own their rights

Company will offer its users the ability to invest in Royalty Shares of hits

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ONErpm expands in Asia, launching six new offices and hiring territory directors

New branches are located in the Philippines, Malaysia, Greater China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam

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From Concord’s $468.8m Round Hill deal to Universal and Deezer’s new artist-centric model… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days

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Responsibility for AI copyright infringement rests with platforms, and 3 other things we learned from Robert Kyncl’s Goldman Sachs interview

Warner Music Group's CEO participated in a Q&A session on Wednesday (September 6) at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia + Technology Conference in San Francisco