Beggars Group In The News

From Hipgnosis’ return to Suno’s new Chief Music Officer… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

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

200+ people sign letter objecting to UMG’s proposed takeover of Downtown, including 20 employees from Beggars Group and Secretly Group companies

Beggars Group boss Martin Mills and Secretly Group boss Darius Van Arman have both signed the letter to the EC, alongside 18 other Beggars/Secretly employees

News

Virgin Music Group bosses slam ‘juvenile and offensive falsehoods’ spread by opponents of Downtown acquisition

JT Myers and Nat Pastor address a number of claims made about Virgin and UMG in recent months by lobbyists

News

Gallery: Music Business Worldwide x Luminate’s Music Leaders’ Dinner at SXSW London

Luminate CEO Rob Jonas and MBW founder/publisher Tim Ingham jointly hosted the dinner

Analysis

On… Udio, FUGA, Universal, Merlin, and missed opportunities

The following op/ed originally appeared in Tim Ingham's MBW Review newsletter, sent exclusively to MBW+ subscribers.

Analysis

Ruth Barlow of AIM and Beggars Group on UMG, Downtown and why she believes ‘regulators must act’

This MBW op/ed comes from Ruth Barlow, Chair of the UK's AIM, and Director of Live Licensing at Beggars Group

Analysis News

The major record companies lost market share again on Spotify last year. But BMG and ‘artist-centric royalties’ make this a more complicated picture than it first appears.

To understand one of the industry's favorite graphs, a few things first need to be taken into account

Analysis

Mark Douglas on the rising importance of the International Performer Number: ‘We strive to remove cost from the wider industry and sharing metadata and systems is one way we do that.’

The following op/ed comes from Mark Douglas, CIO of UK-based music licensing company, PPL.