Kobalt Music Group In The News

Catrin Drabble promoted to CFO at Kobalt, as Tom Sansone steps down

Drabble joined Kobalt in 2017

Sony Music’s $430m acquisition of AWAL officially cleared by UK competition watchdog

“Having carefully assessed the merger we found that it is not likely to affect competition in a way that will reduce the choice or quality of recorded music available or increase prices.”

Analysis News

Sony spent an average of $91m on music catalog acquisitions every month over the past 10 months

Stat was recently revealed on an investor presentation by Sony Corp's Hiroki Totoki

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From the United States’ $15bn revenue to Downtown’s $200m indie artist fund: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter

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Kobalt and Downtown cut ties with Russia; Believe continues to operate in market but is ‘monitoring the situation very closely’

Will CISAC suspend Russian PRO from its global membership?

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Jon Trumbull promoted to Head of Global Writer & Publisher Relations at Kobalt

Trumbull will lead the global Writer & Publisher Relations team

Interviews

Max Martin, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, and songwriter and producer Niclas Molinder say they’ve invented the solution to the music industry’s ‘black box’. And it’s free.

Björn Ulvaeus, Max Martin and Niclas Molinder founded Session to fix music's missing data problem.

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Kobalt just raised $550 million in debt to buy music catalog rights

JPMorgan Chase & Co. and HPS Investment Partners are funding debt, reports Bloomberg