The Orchard In The News

From Steve Cooper’s (upcoming) exit from Warner, to Reservoir’s first year as a public company… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The big stories from the past week

Glassnote Records inks global distribution deal with The Orchard

Glassnote Records is famed for signing and developing Grammy Award-winning acts like Mumford & Sons and Phoenix

Kate Bush is the world’s biggest independent artist right now. She’s owning it.

Kate Bush owns her recorded music rights. So do many other superstar artists – young and old.

After raising $34m, beatBread closes ‘seven figure artist financing deal’ with singer-songwriter Elley Duhe

beatBread claims to have made advances to almost 400 artists since November 2020

As Bad Bunny smashes Apple Music records, his manager Noah Assad says Latin Music will ‘keep growing’

Bad Bunny broke the record for the highest first-week streams worldwide for a Latin album in Apple Music history

Social audio company Gimme Radio raises $3m

Previous investors include iHeartMedia and The Orchard

Tim Pithouse joins Three Six Zero as President of Central Services, overseeing Marketing and Web3

Pithouse joins Three Six Zero from Sony Music's The Orchard, where he was Global Head of Artist & Label Services

FUGA strikes distribution deal with Stockholm-based indie label YEAR0001

Ebba Guhnby also named Business Development Manager for the Nordics at FUGA