News Laffitte Management Group and Sony Music join $12m Series A funding round for creator commerce platform KOMI Startup has raised $17m in a little over a year
Analysis News Germany’s recorded music business generated $1.18bn in the first half of 2023, up 6.6% YoY Audio streaming now accounts for 75.7% of Germany's total recorded music market
News SESAC Music Group partners with five Southeast Asian collection societies to form multi-territorial digital licensing hub The group of societies have formed The Asian Alliance Music Rights Organization (AAMRO)
Analysis Blog Music’s addicted to the ‘Monthly Active User’ metric. But it tells us nothing. The following op/ed comes from long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde
Interviews ‘People really like music. But the music industry lets everyone else capture the value.’ Travis Rosenblatt talks Meddling and much more besides on the latest MBW Podcast
News $100m-backed Asia-focused fund blackx strikes global music rights partnership with superstar Tanya Chua Fund launched in late September with an initial USD $100 million in financing
News Sally Davies appointed Managing Director of Abbey Road Studios Exec joins Abbey Road from Vivendi Village where she was CEO of U-Live
News TikTok Music expands to Australia, Mexico and Singapore Expansion comes two weeks after TikTok Music launched in Brazil and Indonesia
News TikTok and Warner Music Group sign ‘first of its kind’ multi-year licensing deal – including scope for ‘additional and alternative economic models’ WMG boss Robert Kyncl and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew make major joint announcement
News TikTok launches global ‘Elevate’ rising artists program to ‘identify the next wave of emerging stars’ TikTok says it will offer 'meaningful support both in-app and out in the world'.
News Mushroom Group launches new talent booking agency, MBA led by Guven Yilmaz Agency represents a new partnership with Guven Yilmaz (previously Vita Music Group)
News Tencent Music Entertainment’s Chief Strategy Officer Tony Yip to exit at the end of August Exec led TME's two public listings on the New York Stock Exchange and on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
News Utopia divests again, as Absolute Label Services gets reacquired by original leadership team News marks the third time this year that Utopia has offloaded a company that it previously acquired within the past 18 months
Interviews ‘Amazon Music operates at 100 miles per hour, at all times. That’s fine. It matches mine and the team’s ambition’ Laura Lukanz, Amazon Music’s principal point person for the industry in the UK, looks back on her time in radio and then management, and discusses the power and future of streaming…
Analysis News HYBE share price bounces 3% after Jungkook breaks Spotify record with nearly 16m debut-day global streams of Seven It's the biggest opening day of any track in 2023 on Spotify, and the biggest ever opening for a collaboration
News Manusha Sarawan promoted to Managing Director of Southern and East Africa at Universal Music Group Exec was most recently Chief Operating Officer at UMG Sub-Saharan Africa
News From Luminate’s midyear Music Report to Mubert’s 100m AI-generated tracks… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The headlines from the past week you can't afford to miss...
News NetEase Cloud Music inks strategic deal with China’s RYCE Entertainment – including a 30-day exclusive window for new releases RYCE Entertainment's roster includes stars like Jackson Wang