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Music merchandise is big business. But for touring artists, it’s callously inequitable.

Eamonn Forde explores the economics of selling merch at music venues

Spirit Music Group exec Melanie Santa Rosa joins MLC Operations Advisory Committee

Drummer and composer Nate Smith has also been appointed to The MLC’s Unclaimed Royalties Oversight Committee

An MBW reader just blew open the Spotify fake artists story. Here’s what they have to say.

This is an email you're gonna want to read

Spotify’s Director, Global Head of International Licensing exits, joins YouTube Music as Managing Director, APAC

Veteran music executive Paul Smith joins YouTube Music

Stef Pascual promoted to General Manager at Deviate Digital

Pascual was previously Business Strategy Director

Universal just hired this exec to drive forward its Web 3.0 business

Richard Cusick joins the music company as Chief Product Officer, Global E-Commerce

YouTube is making close to $100m from advertising revenues every day

YouTube generated over $28 billion across the course of 2021

SoundCloud’s annual revenues topped $218m in 2020 – and it’s been making bold moves ever since

MBW gets our hands on SoundCloud's results from 2020, and they reveal a 31% annual rise in revenues