AWAL In The News

If you wanted to know why Sony Music bought AWAL… this is why

The signing of girl in red to Columbia could be a key case study in the Sony-AWAL story

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

From Sting selling his song catalog to the majors generating $20bn last year: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter

Sony Music’s $430m buyout of AWAL provisionally cleared by UK competition watchdog

UK’s Competition and Markets Authority gives provisional decision – and it's good news for Sony

Create Music Group acquires viral marketing agency VRTCL

Create claim to have access to nearly 500 million social media followers through its various media properties

Jenn Hovick named Vice President of Artist and Label Development at AWAL

Hovick joined AWAL in 2018 to lead the company’s B2B business

Utopia acquires the UK’s Proper Music Group, launches Distribution Services unit

Fast-growing music tech company acquires again

Microsoft’s $69bn acquisition of Activision Blizzard shows that content is merely Big Tech’s edible plaything.

MBW Reacts: Our team's music biz-centric take on huge news for the world of video games