American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) In The News

3 observations on… the sale of BMI (and Google’s entrance into music rights management)

On BMI's fraternizing with CapitalG (aka Alphabet's fund), plus a windfall for radio broadcasters, and $100 million of money going to songwriters and publishers

Analysis News

From Universal’s missing catalog on TikTok Music to Graham Nash’s catalog sale… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

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

Analysis News

BMI will pay songwriters and publishers a smaller portion of its revenues as a for-profit company – while upping its own margin from 10% to 15% of collections. Will its members tolerate this change?

New revelations from Michael O'Neill shows that BMI is planning to increase its retained revenues by a third

Interviews

‘The music industry has to be open to change’.

Andrea C. Martin reflects on her four years as CEO at PRS for Music and outlines the collection society’s objectives under her tenure, which include reaching £1 billion in annual payouts to songwriters, composers and publishers…

News

Reservoir acquires catalog of Latin Music hitmaker Rudy Perez

Agreement also includes a publishing deal for his future works

News

deadmau5 manager and other industry veterans launch The Circuit Group to acquire stakes in song catalogs

Company was founded by Dean and Jessica Wilson of Seven20, and Brett Fischer, David Gray, and Harvey Tadman of AYITA

News

Evan Bogart’s Seeker Music acquires catalog of Plested, songwriter behind hits for Lewis Capaldi, Niall Horan, Jonas Brothers and more

Founded in 2020, Seeker is led by hitmaker Evan Bogart, who is behind Rihanna’s 2006 No. 1 hit SOS

News

Walter Kolm’s WK Entertainment forms partnership with Andres Castro’s Hits Don’t Lie

Companies enter co-management deal for Latin music stars Zion & Lennox and Silvestre Dangond