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YouTube’s Q1 ad revenue was more than double what Spotify made across its entire business in Q1

YouTube's advertising revenues reached $6.87 billion in Q1 2022

As rap continues to rule the charts in Germany, Apple Music expands Charlie Sloth’s Fire in the Booth freestyle series into the market

Fire In The Booth Germany will be presented by DJ Maxxx

Reservoir and PopArabia acquire Egyptian Record label 100COPIES

Reservoir and PopArabia have also signed Egyptian rapper and singer Mohamed Ramadan to a worldwide publishing deal

Dalmar ‘Biz Dev’ James Jr. and Eric Namour join distribution platform DistroDirect

The new hires mark DistroDirect's ongoing global expansion

After TikTok and SoundCloud, Tencent Music is a distributor now too

TME has already distributed and promoted more than 150,000 songs to overseas platforms

Spotify faces its most crucial earnings call yet. Here are the 3 difficult questions MBW would be asking.

After Netflix's shocker of a Q1, all eyes are on Spotify's equivalent fiscal announcement. Here's what MBW would ask Daniel Ek.

Having paid $222m to artists in 2021, TuneCore has now surpassed total payouts of $2.5bn

Artists using the platform have achieved 500bn streams and 700m downloads

NFT platform SoundMint raises $1.7m led by the Sandbox parent Animoca Brands

SoundMint says that its NFTs are musical compositions derived from stems