Warner Music Group In The News

Why Spotify faces a difficult hardware conundrum (and so does Sonos)

Can both music 'pureplay' companies keep the likes of Amazon and Apple at bay?

The music business’s biggest stories of the past week: Universal, Vivendi, Sony, Apple, Troy Carter

Here's what caught our attention over the past seven days...

Warner Music Group buys youth media brand UPROXX to ‘influence culture’

Max Lousada swoops for Vice Media rival, adding to The Firepit and Songkick

Deezer raises $185m as new investment values company at over $1bn

Access and Orange come back to the table, alongside Dubai-based Rotana

Fake artists still dominate Spotify ‘chill’ playlists. Now Universal is fighting back… with Apple Music.

Nothing has changed on Ambient Chill, Sleep and Music For Concentration

‘Artists with longevity are like athletes – they always want to see how they can get better.’

Joie Manda on a career in hip-hop, and why the genre's been 'having a moment for 40 years'

‘A lot of artists end up frustrated if they sign away their independence.’

Following a period of rapid global expansion, Ditto Music now has 19 offices around the world – and says it’s investing to build the music industry model of the future...

Merck Mercuriadis wants to raise a billion dollars. And then he wants to change the face of the music business.

The veteran manager tells MBW why hes raising such vast sums of money to buy copyrights