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Splice Chief Music Officer Maria Egan exits, joins Riot Games as Global Head of Music & Events

Egan was previously Chief Music Officer at Splice since 2020

UnitedMasters, valued at $550m, just launched its own beat marketplace

Steve Stoute's UnitedMasters launches Beat Exchange, a platform for buying and selling beats

Natina Nimene promoted to Executive Vice President, Promotion & Artist Relations, at Def Jam Recordings

Nimene is one of Billboard's ‘Hip-Hop Power Players’, ‘Women In Music’ and a ‘40 Under 40’ honoree

Is TikTok (or ByteDance) slowly morphing into a record company?

Evidence is building that such a description might one day fit...

Sony Music Publishing UK signs Ed Sheeran co-writer Kal Lavelle to global deal

Kal Lavelle co-wrote Ed Sheeran’s No.1 hit Shivers

Universal Music Publishing Group inks global deal with Glass Animals lead singer Dave Bayley

In 2020, Glass Animals released the RIAA Triple Platinum hit Heat Waves, solely written and produced by Bayley

The Weeknd signs publishing pact with Universal – and he’s thrown new recordings and merch into the package too

The Weeknd has sold more than 75 million albums.

Having paid $222m to artists in 2021, TuneCore has now surpassed total payouts of $2.5bn

Artists using the platform have achieved 500bn streams and 700m downloads