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Utopia divests again, as Absolute Label Services gets reacquired by original leadership team

News marks the third time this year that Utopia has offloaded a company that it previously acquired within the past 18 months

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Utopia wants to be the ‘operating system’ for the music industry, and 3 other things we learned from founder Mattias Hjelmstedt’s new interview

In a rare interview on the Dealmakers podcast with Alejandro Cremades, Utopia founder Mattias Hjelmstedt dropped some hints as to what has been happening with the company

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‘Madizin Music is redefining the traditional relationship between artists and labels.’

Madizin Music Managing Director Pat Benzner on Schlager, Deutchpop and Germany's music business...

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Peloton paid the record industry more than TikTok last year, says Goldman Sachs (and 3 more revelations from financial giant’s latest ‘Music In The Air’ paper)

MBW combs through the latest iteration of one of music's most influential financial reports

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Faryal Khan-Thompson named SVP of Marketing and Community Engagement at CD Baby

Khan-Thompson joins from TuneCore where she served as VP, International

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Swedish collection society STIM’s payouts hit record $217m in 2022

The society revealed the figures in its annual report for 2022

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From the Taylor Swift catalog sale saga to music publishers’ $250m lawsuit against Twitter… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place

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Believe, EMPIRE, Spotify, Amazon Music and more team up to form global task force ‘aimed at eradicating streaming fraud’

Digital music companies form 'Music Fights Fraud'