Kobalt Music Group In The News

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

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?

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

Trumbull will lead the global Writer & Publisher Relations team

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.

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

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

Even without AWAL, Kobalt Music Group is a $600m+ annual business… and comfortably profitable

Company posted first ever full year of EBITDA profitability in FY2021

iHeartMedia’s Lisa Worden to be honored as ‘International Music Person of The Year’ at MUSEXPO Creative Summit 2022

Event set to return with its first in-person edition since 2019

Universal Music Group spent $459m on catalog acquisitions last year… less than half what it spent in 2020

New investor presentation reveals interesting numbers and facts around UMG's acquisition strategy