Warner Music Group In The News

Steve Cooper: Warner Music is becoming less financially dependent on superstar artists – and wants to see ‘regular’ streaming price rises

Outgoing Warner boss tackled streaming price rises and more at Goldman Sachs event this week

Peloton co-founders John Foley and Hisao Kushi exit; Karen Boone named as new Chairperson of the Board

'Their impact will resonate long after their departure,' Boone said

Niels Walboomers appointed President, Records and Publishing, Benelux at Warner Music Group

Exec succeeds Martin Jessurun who steps down as President of Warner Music Benelux, and Arno Van Berkel, who exits as MD of Warner Chappell Music Benelux

News

Scott Cohen to exit Warner as Chief Innovation Officer

Warner hired Cohen to the newly created position of Chief Innovation Officer, Recorded Music back in March 2019

Interviews

‘I’m confident that in the future, 15-20% of all music on the global charts will be by African artists.’

MBW’s World Leaders series interviews Martin Nielsen, CEO of African music streaming service Mdundo

Analysis News

Universal acquires mtheory’s label division; JT Myers and Nat Pastor to run UMG’s global artist services business

Execs appointed Co-CEOs of a new global division, Virgin Music Group

News

Warner Music, Universal Music sued for patent infringement by Blue Spike over MQA encoding process

The cases against the two music giants is in relation to their partnership with MQA Ltd.

Interviews

‘With production music, there are no limits on the opportunities we can bring emerging talent.’

West One Music’s Global CEO Edwin Cox tells us more about the firm's origins, the evolution of the production music space, and how the globalisation of media has changed the way the company licenses its music