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Isabel Garvey appointed Chief Operating Officer at Warner Music UK

Garvey was most recently MD of London's legendary Abbey Road Studios

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Jen Ivory named new Parlophone MD; Warner UK label downsizes as Nick Burgess, Mark ‘Mitch’ Mitchell and Jack Melhuish exit

Jennifer Ivory, currently, SVP, Warner Records UK, will be taking over as Managing Director

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Warner to reduce global workforce by around 4% as company makes ‘hard choices in order to evolve’

Warner Music Group is reducing its global team by around 270 people

Interviews

‘The artists we’ve worked with have all moved culture in a very real way.’

Human Re Sources founder J. Erving on the rise of RAYE, his philosophy on artist development and the ongoing friction/coalition between independents and majors…

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‘It’s about time we rethink promotion.’

Robin Hammouti, VP, Head of Marketing & Partnerships at France-based music promotion platform, Listn, tells us how the new platform works, and addresses challenges in the promotion space

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Diplo joins $200m funding round for Torch Capital to invest in consumer-facing startups

Investment firm closed its first fund, which raised $60 million, in June 2015

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BMI beats rate court dispute vs concert promoters, giving songwriters 138% raise in US

BMI affiliates will receive a rate that is 138% higher than the historical rate

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Katie Soo appointed Chief Business Officer at mobile ticketing firm DICE

Company reports that 2022 was its biggest year to date

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Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak amongst hundreds of tech and science leaders calling for 6-month pause on ‘training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4’

Other signatories include three researchers from Google/Alphabet's DeepMind

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The major record companies release around 3,900 tracks every day. Their problem? That’s a drop in the ocean.

The major music companies release only 4% of the daily deluge of tracks hitting audio and video streaming services, new data shows.

Interviews

‘Bad Bunny and Rosalia are just the tip of a very large artistic iceberg. The creative force of Latin Music is unstoppable.’

In this feature, we speak to Nando Luaces, CEO of Madrid-based distributor and Latin Music specialist Altafonte

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Older Posts

Isabel Garvey appointed Chief Operating Officer at Warner Music UK

Jen Ivory named new Parlophone MD; Warner UK label downsizes as Nick Burgess, Mark ‘Mitch’ Mitchell and Jack Melhuish exit

Warner to reduce global workforce by around 4% as company makes ‘hard choices in order to evolve’

‘The artists we’ve worked with have all moved culture in a very real way.’

‘It’s about time we rethink promotion.’

Diplo joins $200m funding round for Torch Capital to invest in consumer-facing startups

BMI beats rate court dispute vs concert promoters, giving songwriters 138% raise in US

Katie Soo appointed Chief Business Officer at mobile ticketing firm DICE

Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak amongst hundreds of tech and science leaders calling for 6-month pause on ‘training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4’

The major record companies release around 3,900 tracks every day. Their problem? That’s a drop in the ocean.

‘Bad Bunny and Rosalia are just the tip of a very large artistic iceberg. The creative force of Latin Music is unstoppable.’

Primary Wave buys artist royalties of Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer and founding member, Bob Burns

Apple Music Classical streaming app officially launches

Turntable LIVE raises $7m in seed round to launch social music platform

Tuned Global names Pacemaker co-founder Jonas Norberg as first Head of AI

‘It takes time to deliver this level of change and not everyone is able to move at the same pace’.

Kakao launched a new virtual K-Pop group called MAVE, and the first single has already generated 20m streams on Spotify

France becomes latest country to ban TikTok on government devices