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News

Warner Music Group sells Uproxx, HipHopDX and other media assets to Uproxx Founder and CEO Jarret Myer

Rich Antoniello joins new company UPROXX Studios as Partner and Executive Chairman; will.i.am joins as Partner/Investor

Analysis News

Latin music generated $1.4 billion in US recorded music revenues last year – up 16% YoY

The RIAA has published its Year-end Latin Music Report

News

Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ becomes first album to cross 300m Spotify streams in a single day

The Tortured Poets Department broke multiple Spotify records in less than 24 Hours

Analysis Blog

Music tech entrepreneurship requires more than product-market fit

This op/ed comes from Vickie Nauman, Founder and CEO of LA-based boutique music tech consulting and advisory firm CrossBorderWorks

Analysis News

Epidemic Sound’s royalty-free music is played 2.5bn times per day on YouTube and TikTok, but company still struggles to turn a profit

The company says there are now 26 million videos on YouTube and TikTok featuring its music

Analysis

Universal Music Group generated 51% of its 2023 recorded music revenues in North America… and 8 other things we learned from its new annual report

MBW takes a deep dive through Universal's latest in-depth financial report

Interviews

‘In K-pop, the number one thing is the relationship with your fans. Non K-pop artists have to put their fans on the same level as their artistry.’

MBW's Inspiring Women series meets Mitra Darab, President HxG at HYBE America

Analysis

Taylor Swift has a laudable history of standing up to Big Tech in the name of artist compensation. By embracing TikTok in 2024, she’s broken ranks with that narrative.

When Swift grappled with Apple in 2015, she noted that the fight was "not about me" – it was about other artists. The TikTok situation is the exact opposite.