News Charts aim to provide official rankings of the top streaming tracks in countries across the MENA region News Trade body's 'Friends' initiative is designed to facilitate collaboration between companies and the independent music sector Interviews France headquartered Mewo is a catalog management platform with an AI-assisted search engine News Believe's strategy is to focus on developing local artists in China, India and Southeast Asia. News SNEP targeted short-form video services in comments made last week about France's subscription streaming growth Analysis News Deezer this week revealed it has struck an agreement to start paying UMG's artists via an 'artist centric' model News China broke into the world's Top 5 recorded music markets in 2022, according to IFPI data News Five of the biggest stories from MBW's pages this week...