News Downtown Artist & Label Services sets its sights on Musica Mexicana; signs Beto Vega, expands partnership with Kartel Music Company has also augmented its team in Mexico over the past two years to support its growing operations in the region
News Teddy Swims inks global publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music Swims currently holds the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 with 'Lose Control'
Analysis News US recorded music industry revenues hit $17.1 billion in 2023 The RIAA reports that on a retail basis, recorded music revenues in the US grew 8% YoY in 2023
Interviews ‘No one understands the pressure of being labelled as a ‘hit songwriter’, then somebody puts you in a room with strangers and they’re like, ‘Hey, I need a smash!’’ Grammy-winner Theron Thomas talks about the childhood that inspired him, helping break Lizzo, his billion-stream hits, AI, TikTok, The Power Rangers and Mel Gibson
News Spotify launches video courses on production, songwriting, how to ‘make hit records’ and more The platform has teamed up with various ed tech services
News BMG annual revenues hit $979m in 2023, up 4.6% YoY; EBITDA flat at $210m BMG's EBITDA margin stood at 21.4% in 2023, down slightly from the 22.5% margin it posted in 2022
News Warner has 13 days to submit a binding offer for Believe, as French company agrees to let WMG peruse its ‘data room’ This is the latest twist in an ongoing corporate saga
Analysis News Tencent Music users are ‘willing to pay’ for music produced with the company’s AI tools… and 3 other things we learned on TME’s latest earnings call Key takeaways from Tencent Music Entertainment's latest earnings call
Interviews ‘Majors and independents have the same end goal. Being aligned on how we get there, and garnering the same respect from different services, is crucial to that.’ Emily Stephenson, President of Publishing at Downtown Music, talks about her career path, her work/life balance and the evolution of publishing
News Adriana Ramos named Managing Director, Brazil at Universal Music Publishing Group Ramos replaces longtime Brazil MD Marcelo Falcao
News Tracy Chan, ex-Chief Content Officer at SoundCloud, joins AI music company Splash as Chief Executive Officer Chan joined SoundCloud in 2022 and exited his role as CCO at the platform this month (March)
News Joni Mitchell’s music is back on Spotify, a week after Neil Young’s music returned to the platform Move comes more than two years after both artists removed their catalogs from Spotify
News Musixmatch partners with AI company Runway to let artists generate AI-powered lyric videos The tool can also directly export the compositions as 30-second clips to create assets for social media, and Spotify Canvas.
News UK live music promoters Communion Presents and FKP Scorpio UK merge to form Communion ONE Communion ONE will be led by a board including managing directors Daniel Ealam, Mazin Tappuni and Scott O’Neill
News Tencent Music President and Chief Technology Officer Zhenyu Xie to exit Exec will continue to be involved with TME in a consulting capacity
News French regulators step in to remove roadblock for possible Warner Music Group bid for Believe Believe's board turned to the AMF to adjudicate whether a particular move by a consortium led by Believe founder/CEO, Denis Ladegaillerie, was lawful
Analysis News From the ‘secret’ composer behind 650 fake artists to BandLab’s 100m users… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up This week's biggest stories...
News Streaming fraud leads to prison sentence for Danish man in case called ‘historic’ by artists’ groups Streaming fraud and manipulated audio are two of the biggest headaches in music today, and a criminal case shows how the two go hand in hand