News Laura Mendoza appointed Managing Director, Colombia at Sony Music Publishing Exec most recently served as Head of Label and Artist Solutions Central America, Andean & Southern Cone Region at Believe
News CTM Outlander acquires catalog of songwriter and producer Ross Copperman The agreement includes a publishing deal for his future works
News The Orchard promotes Ian Dutt to President, UK and Chris Manning to Managing Director, UK & Europe Both execs will continue reporting to Colleen Theis, President and Chief Operating Officer
News Morgan Stanley is investing more than $700m to buy music copyrights in partnership with Kobalt Deal represents a return to managing investment for outside capital for Kobalt, which sold $1.4 billion in portfolios in past few years
News UnitedMasters launches personalized in-app artist development feature, ‘Blueprint’ The new tool, available within the UnitedMasters app, will provide artists with guidance, coaching, and insights
News Italy-based music company Artist First launches live music division, Artist First Live Artist First Live will be headed by Alessandro Fabozzi
News Tidal’s new ‘Collabs’ tool will give artists custom recommendations for potential ‘creatively compatible’ collaborators on the platform Artists who opt-in for TIDAL Collabs will get recommendations for other artists to potentially work with
News Anghami could be delisted from the Nasdaq this week (or in the very near future) Anghami has received a 'delist determination letter' from the Nasdaq
Analysis News Four things we learned from Sir Lucian Grainge on Universal’s Q3 earnings call… that wasn’t ‘Merchants of Garbage’ From Deezer to AI and China, UMG's leadership team discussed a number of key topics for the business
Interviews Scott Cohen on his optimism for the music industry – and JKBX’s ‘transformative’ launch The CEO of new music trading platform speaks to MBW about the future for JKBX and much more
News The MLC has paid out over $1.5bn to songwriters to date Mechanical Licensing Collective issues update on royalties paid to date
News TikTok strikes global deal with DistroKid for indie artists to upload music to TikTok Music and CapCut The deal will see music distributed by DistroKid available across TikTok Music, CapCut, and in TikTok's Commercial Music Library
News Google to invest up to $2bn in AI company Anthropic, which is currently being sued for copyright infringement by Universal Music Group News of the investment was first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Friday (October 27)
News Jungkook smashes record for fastest song to hit 1bn streams on Spotify with ‘Seven’ Seven smashed the previous record set by Miley Cyrus’ Flowers
News YouTube Music sponsors show-stopping category at next week’s A&R Awards Big night just around the corner as YouTube Music backs legends-only award
Interviews ‘AfroFuture’s vision is to bring African art, cuisine, fashion, and music to a global audience.’ MBW's Trailblazers series interviews Abdul Karim Abdullah, Co-Founder and CEO of cultural entertainment platform AfroFuture
Analysis News Deezer’s ‘artist-centric’ model now has a new ‘user-centric’ element which, despite not really being ‘user-centric’, is quite a clever idea. MBW Explains: Digging into what Deezer's latest addition to 'artist-centric' really means
News Personalized music for games company Reactional Music strikes deal with Defected Records Defected has licensed the masters for a selection of tracks from its wider catalog for use on Reactional’s music delivery platform and personalization engine