News Various Artists and Stellar Songs launch Alternative Songs publishing joint venture Venture to be administered and funded globally by Downtown Music Services
Analysis News Believe generated $800m in annual revenues in 2022, up 31.8% YoY Company's full-year financial results were published on Wednesday, March 15
Interviews Avex Inc. CEO Katsumi Kuroiwa on Japan, the modern music business, and global expansion MBW's World Leaders Series interviews Katsumi Kuroiwa, President and CEO of Japan's Avex Group
Analysis News Why is Spotify copying TikTok? To cling on to power. MBW founder, Tim Ingham delves behind a major recent entertainment industry headline to explain what's really going on
News Universal confirms partnership with Deezer to explore new streaming model Partnership follows UMG alliance with TIDAL announced in Janauary
News Ex-TikTok exec Shawna Spears joins Venice Music as VP of Brand Marketing Exec led artist and manager partnerships (HipHop and R&B) at TikTok
News As US vinyl sales soar, Metallica buy their own pressing plant to meet ‘massive demand’ Legendary heavy metal band acquires controlling stake in Furnace Record Pressing
News Hipgnosis exec Tony Barnes named as co-founder of metaverse startup Karta Karta is a metaverse studio that offers in-game experiential marketing for musicians, brands and sports teams
News Arica Ng appointed President, Asia Pacific at Warner Chappell Music Exec will be based in Hong Kong, reporting to Guy Moot, Co-Chair and CEO of WCM
News Universal buys classical label Hyperion, four months after launching its own classical music service via Deutsche Grammophon Hyperion was founded in the UK in 1980 by the late Ted Perry MBE.
News Eric Levin, long-time Warner Music Group CFO, to retire later this year Levin, who joined WMG in 2014, will help Robert Kyncl search for his successor
News SESAC Music Group acquires distribution and content delivery platform AudioSalad AudioSalad has over 16 million audio and video assets under management
News Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to lay off 10,000 more employees in company’s ‘Year of Efficiency’ News was shared by Meta's founder and CEO in a letter to staff on Tuesday, March 14
Analysis News HYBE’s not the only K-pop giant eyeing the US: SM Entertainment plans $150m Stateside acquisition to speed up global expansion Over the weekend, HYBE officially ceased its attempt to acquire a 40% stake in SM Entertainment.
Analysis News Spotify’s mission statement is preposterous. Its latest announcements prove it. Drilling behind the numbers released by Spotify last week, to discover the hard truth
Interviews News Warner Chappell expands JV with Sweden-based Lilly Raye Music, strikes new partnerships with Tommy Brown, Parx Publishing Lilly Raye Music is a management company and publisher founded by US music executive Edward Matthew
News Having already spent $100m on music rights, Pythagoras buys Barton Music publishing catalog, including songs performed by Frank Sinatra Pythagoras Music Fund buys publishing rights of Barton Music and its affiliated catalogs
News Chrysalis Records signs global distribution deal with Secretly Distribution Deal covers all physical and digital distribution for the label’s frontline releases