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Sony Music Publishing expands in MENA with new Dubai office, names Dounia Chaaban as Managing Director

Exec will report to Sony Music Publishing's Senior Vice President of International, Dan Nelson

The major record companies (and Merlin) saw their Spotify market share fall again in 2023. Yet even before ‘artist-centric’ changes, this decline started slowing.

Spotify's annual report reveals an interesting trend around the joint market share of major record companies and Merlin on the platform

EQT, Denis Ladegaillerie, and TCV launch $1.64 billion takeover bid for Believe

EQT says it expects to be 30 to 35% invested in Believe should takeover bid succeed

Believe expands in Japan, launches imprint dedicated to Japanese hip-hop

Launch of the new label in Japan comes three months after Believe began operating in the market

As YouTube Music hits 100m paid subscribers, Lyor Cohen says the platform ‘cares profoundly about the health of the music industry’

YouTube has surpassed 100 million paid YouTube Music and Premium subscribers worldwide

TuneCore and Amazon Music UK partner to offer free studio time to independent artists

Twelve self-releasing artists at TuneCore will be granted access to Metropolis Studios' Studio X

TikTok’s biggest headache in its fight with Universal Music Group is UMG’s publishing catalog (and 2 other observations on the feud the whole music industry is talking about)

What's really going on behind the scenes of music's big Grammy Week fall-out

With India in the running to overtake the US as the biggest music streaming market (by volume), Believe swoops for local ‘powerhouse’ catalog

Believe has also acquired WHM's YouTube channel