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Reservoir Media has spent over $695m on catalogs to date (and 5 other things we learned about the company from its new Investor Factsheet)

MBW fillets a new investor factsheet published by the publicly-traded firm

The top 1,000 songs on YouTube’s TikTok rival Shorts saw more than 280bn combined views in January 2023

YouTube publishes new set of stats for its short-form video platform

YouTube’s Lyor Cohen to receive City of Hope 2023 Spirit of Life Award

Cohen was chosen for this year’s award for his contributions to the music industry

Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak amongst hundreds of tech and science leaders calling for 6-month pause on ‘training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4’

Other signatories include three researchers from Google/Alphabet's DeepMind

38 million tracks on music streaming services were played ZERO times in 2022. (Or: why Spotify should take a leaf out of Elon Musk’s book.)

Should Spotify, in a quest to improve its margin, start playing hardball with its least successful artists?

Goldman Sachs predicted the global recorded music biz would generate $27.9bn in 2022. It didn’t. Here’s why.

We're sorry. We're going to talk currency models. It's kinda important.

In a shock move, Meta has pulled music by Italian songwriters from its platforms. Is this connected to Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Year of Efficiency’?

A mega dispute is brewing in Italy between music publishers and Mark Zuckerberg's Meta

‘A lot of people are advocating for changes in the models of existing streaming services. I feel like that ship has sailed.’

MBW's Inspiring Women series talks to Vickie Nauman about her career at the crossroads between music and technology, from Napster to Web3