News ‘Boss and Swift Act‘ proposed in Congress to regulate live events ticket market Bill is aimed at regulating ticket sales
News Perry Bashkoff, Instagram’s Director of Music Partnerships, exits amid job cuts at parent company Meta In a recent LinkedIn post, Bashkoff confirmed that he was one of those affected by Meta’s layoffs
News Queen music catalog could be sold this year for over $1 billion, say MBW sources Major music companies including Universal Music Group have been in discussions for the acquisition, we're told, in addition to players from the world of private equity
News From the 120,000 tracks hitting streaming services daily to Universal’s AI sound partnership… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place
News Copyright Royalty Board confirms streaming royalty rate for songwriters for 2018-2022 The Copyright Royalty Board issued a written determination this week upholding the Phonorecords III mechanical royalty rate
Analysis News Live Nation President and CFO talks AI, ticketing legislation and TikTok at J.P. Morgan conference Live Nation President and CFO Joe Bertold was interviewed at the J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference this week
News CISAC reports ‘sharp’ rise in collections in Greece and global music identifier system progress in annual report International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) has published its latest annual report
News Jen Hubbard appointed Director, Sync A&R at Concord Music Publishing Exec will be responsible for the development and management of Concord’s US songwriter roster for the purpose of sync activity
News Personalised video platform HiNOTE teams up with Ticketmaster, Wu-Tang Clan and De La Soul Platform has secured what it says is a "strategic placement" on Ticketmaster
News After raising $25m, BandLab parent offloads UK music media brand Uncut Divestment of Uncut arrives in the same week that BandLab Technologies raised $25m, valuing the company at $425m
News Snapchat teams up with Republic Records to launch virtual ‘Band Tees’ merch Debut collection features 'digital merch tops' from Greta Van Fleet, Jonas Brothers, Kim Petras, Lil Wayne, Metro Boomin and Nicki Minaj
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