Billboard In The News

$500m-backed Litmus Music acquires music rights from Benny Blanco

Litmus was launched by music industry veterans Hank Forsyth and Dan McCarroll with Carlyle Global Credit

BMI rate court victory challenged by live concert industry titans

Live Nation and other concert giants file notice to appeal the ruling with the US Court of Appeals

Cinq Music invests in Street Mob Records, fortifying its position in regional Mexican genre

Cinq has raised large amounts of money through a series of funding rounds over the past several years, including a $100-million injection from GoDigital in 2022

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Primary Wave acquires portion of ‘The Final Countdown’ singer-songwriter Joey Tempest’s publishing catalog

Deal encompasses five albums

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Wallace Joseph promoted to SVP, A&R, and Jon Chen to VP, A&R at Warner Chappell Music

Both execs continue to report to Ryan Press, President, North America

Interviews

‘These relationships weren’t made by sending beats, they had to be built. We had to meet and like each other, go through ups and downs.’

MBW’s World’s Greatest Producers series interviews Bryan-Michael Cox

Analysis

Reliving the Taylor Swift catalog sale saga (and following the money…)

MBW uncovers exclusive facts about the buying and selling of the catalog of the world's biggest megastar

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UnitedMasters expands its reach into Africa, partners with Nigerian producer Sarz to ’empower the next generation of African talent’

Partnership will provide access to 'brand and sync opportunities, and capital' for Sarz' 1789 imprint to develop talent from Africa