News Ryusuke Kamada named Chief Financial Officer at Avex USA Kamada has been with Avex since 2018, and relocated from the company's Japanese headquarters to the US in January 2020
News Melanie Santa Rosa named Head of Copyright at Third Side Music Exec was previously on the Mechanical Licensing Collective's (MLC) Operations Advisory Committee
Interviews ‘PPL’s position in the music industry has transformed massively.’ PPL CEO, Peter Leathem, looks back not just on recent developments at the licensing and collection society, but at 90 years of history, the JV with PRS, ‘taking over from Alex Ferguson’ and much more…
Analysis On… the New York State of things – and dinner with Robert Kyncl. MBW founder Tim Ingham on 48 hours in New York City, and three hours with Warner's boss
News TikTok asks Supreme Court to block US ban TikTok seeks temporary pause to an incoming law that could see the app banned in the market if it's not divested from parent company ByteDance
News Merlin tells tech companies not to use its members’ music to train AI without authorization Using Merlin members' music to train AI requires “explicit written authorization,” the organization has declared
News Vevo dscvr artists to watch 2025: Towa Bird, Lucky Love, Wisp Three more artists from the Vevo DSCVR Artists To Watch List...
News Spotify’s Car Thing officially non-operational, less than three years after it rolled out in the US Car Thing users have until January 14 to contact Spotify and see whether they qualify for a refund
News Universal’s Virgin Music Group to buy Downtown Music for $775 million Deal expected to close in second half of next year
News Utopia’s Bicester warehouse that services Universal, Sony, Beggars and Domino sold to landlord DP World DP World confirmed that it would acquire all services at the Bicester site previously operated by UDS
News Prepare to remove TikTok from app stores by January 19, US lawmakers tell Google and Apple CEOs told to comply with law requiring divestiture from parent company ByteDance
Analysis News From the United States vs. TikTok to Sony pulling its catalog from Boomplay… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
News US government asks court to reject TikTok’s motion to delay law that could see its app banned in the market TikTok and parent company ByteDance filed an emergency motion asking for a temporary injunction to delay the law
News After Spotify’s $100bn market cap milestone, Daniel Ek cashes out another $28m Spotify's co-founder and CEO has sold $248.3 million-worth of company stock so far this year
News Antonious Porch, SoundCloud’s General Counsel and Chief Diversity Officer to exit; Ama Walton promoted to EVP & General Counsel Porch to join magazine publisher Condé Nast as its new General Counsel in February
News Universal, Warner team up with Realize Music for wellness-through-singing VR app The 'Realize Music: Sing' VR app aims to use singing as a therapeutic tool, with music from UMG and WMG
Analysis On… Drake, disgust, and Discovery Mode. What drove the Canadian star's legal filings, and what might the consequence of his actions be for the music industry?
News Musi was kicked off the App store over copyright infringement allegations, now it’s accusing Apple of a ‘backchannel scheme’ to remove it Apple cited complaints from IFPI, NMPA and Sony Music in defending its decision to remove Musi from its App Store