News Nathan Barley Phillips and Shawn Keith upped to Heads of A&R in Europe and North America at Nuclear Blast Believe-owned metal label Nuclear Blast has restructured its A&R department
Analysis Blog ‘We must make life fair for creators, or we will lose the next Paul McCartney.’ CISAC President Bjorn Ulvaeus looks ahead to next week’s CISAC General Assembly in Mexico
News Reservoir buys rights to catalog of Miami Sound Machine co-founder and lead songwriter Enrique ‘Kiki’ Garcia Deal includes the hit 'Conga' performed by Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine
News Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden joins board of AI music for gaming company PlusMusic.ai PlusMusic.ai has a number music and electronic entertainment-related patents
News Music distributor Alliance Entertainment posts calendar Q1 revenues of $227.7m, down 29% YoY Alliance completed a $480m SPAC merger in Q1
Analysis News Rob Stringer says music streaming fraud ‘is a problem that must be eliminated’, calls for better payouts from short-form video platforms Sony Music Group Chairman covers various key industry topics in presentation to Sony Corp investors
Analysis News There are now 120,000 new tracks hitting music streaming services each day A total of 10.08 million new songs uploaded to the likes of Spotify, YouTube Music and other music streaming services in the first three months of the year alone
News Tina Turner, legendary singer, passes away, aged 83 "With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model."
News Kilometre Music Group acquires catalog of Grammy Award-winning songwriter Tourist, secures $50m credit facility with Pinnacle Financial William Phillips (pka Tourist) co-wrote Sam Smith’s Grammy-winning hit 'Stay With Me'
News Having raised $80m to date, creator agency Talenthouse alerts investors to ‘critical financial situation’ Talenthouse trades on the SIX Swiss stock exchange
News UK-based AI music firm DAACI buys two music tech startups to develop ‘the ultimate creative AI ecosystem’ Company has acquired music technology startups MXX and WiSL
News HYBE inks music distribution deal with Tencent Music Entertainment Deal will see music from HYBE artists including Seventeen and Tomorrow x Together made available on QQ Music, Kugou and Kuwo
News CD Baby ends distribution of vinyl and CDs to focus on streaming CD Baby to close warehouse and end physical distribution service
News Generative AI-powered music startup boombox.io raises $7m Startup's app leverages generative AI to 'enrich and extend a musician's creative process'
Interviews ‘Japanese acts account for nearly 90% of all tickets sold for live music events in Japan.’ MBW's World Leaders series interviews Kaori Hayashi, CEO of Japan-headquartered concert promoter HIP (Hayashi International Promotions)
News SoundCloud, chasing profitability, cuts another 8% of employee headcount The news was confirmed today (May 23) in an internal memo to staff from SoundCloud CEO, Eliah Seton, obtained by MBW
News Warner CFO Eric Levin: music streaming business is ready for recurring price increases Exec discussed streaming prices during a Q&A session at JPMorgan’s Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference on May 22