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From UMG’s $1m an hour, to Paul McCartney’s music streaming crusade: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up

The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place

Scooter Braun and Troy Carter backed livestream startup Moment House names seven new key hires

Execs join from Spotify, Apple Music and AEG Presents

Sony Music applauds Apple’s new podcast subscription launch

Premium Apple podcast subscriptions will be available in 170 countries in May

PortalDisc App is a new a ‘hyper-localized and hyper-targeted’ music streaming service in Chile

Platform offers 130,000 Chilean songs from 300 national labels and more than 7,000 independent artists,

Apple Music just made a lot of claims about what it pays artists. Let’s take a closer look.

A new email from Apple has revealed some big numbers, and a couple of digs at Spotify. MBW gives its take.

Why SoundCloud has the music business right where it wants it.

Michael Weissman, CEO of SoundCloud, answers MBW's questions on payout models, tipping, and where the music industry's headed

UnitedMasters’ Steve Stoute: ‘Record companies’ ownership in artists’ intellectual property will diminish.’

Steve Stoute tells MBW about what Apple's investment means for UnitedMasters and gives us his predictions for the future role of record labels in the music industry...

Tencent-owned music streaming service JOOX inks licensing deal with Merlin

Agreement licenses Merlin content via JOOX’s ad-supported and premium tiers, as well as its karaoke feature