News Lázaro Hernández promoted to SVP, A&R, US Latin and Latin America at Warner Chappell Music Hernández was involved in signing prominent Latin artists such as Chencho Corleone, Gabito Ballesteros, and María Becerra
Analysis News From Spotify’s ‘superfan clubs’ to Apple Music’s spatial audio royalty boost… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
News Warner Music Group launches new Brazil HQ and creative hub in Rio de Janeiro The new hub houses the operations of Warner Music Brazil, Warner Chappell Music Brazil, and ADA Brazil
Analysis News A year after he took charge as CEO, Robert Kyncl has quietly transformed Warner Music Group’s leadership Kyncl has hired multiple execs from his former employer, Google/YouTube; others have been handpicked from Disney, Instacart, Mastercard, and Justworks
News AI-made music can now be easily uploaded to SoundCloud, thanks to a trio of new deals Company inks deals with Fadr, Soundful, and Voice-Swap
Interviews Dot Da Genius on Kid Cudi, Kanye, the possibility of a producers’ strike and why he wants to ‘completely overhaul’ the current music industry business model Kid Cudi's key creative collaborator discusses his breakthrough, his biggest records, AI and why he's keeping hold of his catalog - for now
News Rostrum Pacific sets sights on physical distribution with Fat Beats acquisition, hires Universal veterans Kevin Engler and Bobby Israeli appointed to key positions at the company
Analysis As ‘artist-centric’ nobbles DIY aggregators, is a big-money ‘middle class’ distribution acquisition inevitable in 2024? Could any of the three majors, looking for a swift market share boost, execute a humdinger of an acquisition in the rest of 2024?
News BMG ‘doubles down’ on North America, as Jon Loba gets promoted to frontline role, with Thomas Scherer to run Global Catalog BMG is planning to increase investment in its US record labels
News Insidr Music to launch direct-to-fan music streaming app, which it claims could pay artists ‘4,000% more than other music streaming platforms’ By offering subscriptions to individual artists, the platform aims to be the Patreon or Substack of music
News Universal Music unveils ‘UMusicLift’ hub for music startups UMusicLift will support “the next generation of diverse, music-related startups and entrepreneurs who aim to accelerate the next wave of digital transformation”
News Rick Gerson’s Alpha Wave Global, backer of Elon Musk and X, has invested in Gamma Gamma's logo started appearing on the section of Alpha Wave's homepage reflecting its investments earlier this month
News Did Spotify just confirm that ‘superfan clubs’ are coming to its platform? Spotify appears to have revealed this information in a blog post
News Should photographers and rightsholders get paid when tattoo artists ink pictures of music icons? A trial underway in California could determine whether a tattoo based on a copyrighted image is a copyright violation
News Primary Wave strikes music rights deal with the estate of Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland 'There are few rock artists that had the impact that Scott Weiland did on music,' said Primary Wave CEO & Founder, Larry Mestel
News Spirit Music Group inks admin services deal with Downtown Music Publishing Spirit's current sub-publishing arrangements will remain in place
News Apple Music Classical officially launches in Japan, South Korea and China Apple Music Classical launched in March 2023, following Apple’s acquisition of Netherlands-based classical music streaming service Primephonic in 2021
News Warner Music strikes ‘landmark’ partnership with Pakistan-based music and audio production company, Giraffe Warner Music to work with Giraffe to establish a presence in Pakistan