PRS For Music In The News

Melanie Johnson appointed Chief Commercial Officer at music tech company Audoo

Company raised £7.2 million in its pre-series B funding round in 2021

The A&R Awards 2023: The finalists revealed!

The UK music industry's most enjoyable night out is just six weeks away. Now we know who'll be competing for the top prizes.

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PRS for Music expands ‘Nexus’ metadata program, with new initiative to link songwriter info to recordings prior to release

PRS for Music unveiled its Nexus works metadata portal last year

Analysis News

Italy’s recorded music revenues grew 14.2% in H1, with 19 of the Top 20 best-selling albums all by local acts

Recorded music revenues in Italy reached €175 million in H1, according to FIMI, the organization that represents the Italian recorded music industry

Analysis

Songwriters are worried about BMI’s private equity sale – and if it will hurt their royalties. What happens now?

MBW has heard rumors from senior music biz figures that BMI has explored talks with a number of potential backers/suitors, with the latest name on the lips of the business being New Mountain Capital

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The UK’s PRS for Music and PPL team up with music startup Audoo for public performance distributions

Audoo's tech identifies background music being played publicly

Analysis News

Local artists’ market share is rising on music services, and 3 other things we learned from Denis Ladegaillerie on Believe’s latest earnings call

Paris-headquartered music company published its financial results for the first half of 2023 on Wednesday (August 2)

Interviews

‘The industry has learned its lesson.’

For 20 years at BMG and Universal, Rob Wells was the music industry’s go-to digital guru. Then he quit. After enduring a ‘trainwreck’ at Crowdmix, he’s now back as CEO of fast-growing rights management company Orfium...