News Jennifer Blakeman joins Evan Bogart’s Seeker Music as Chief Rights & Royalties Officer Exec joins Seeker from her previous role as President and CCO of boutique music publisher one77 Music
News Patrick Moxey’s Ultra International Music Publishing launches Hidden Gem joint venture with producer Diamond Pistols Company announces collaboration with Los Angeles-based producer
News Anghami grew its paying subs by 21% YoY in 2022 and generated revenues of $48.1m, up 35.6% YoY MENA-focused streaming platform has published its preliminary Unaudited 2022 Results
News HYBE’s SM Entertainment takeover plan falls short, Kakao launches $960m offer for controlling stake SM Entertainment’s shareholders are not buying into HYBE’s plan to take control of its rival
Interviews Key Songs In The Life Of… Jérémy Erlich Spotify's Global Head of Music on the songs that have soundtracked his existence
News Snoop Dogg to launch Shiller, a Web3-centred live broadcast platform for creators Snoop Dogg has teamed up with tech entrepreneur Sam Jones
Analysis Blog To grow the market for music creation tools, look to Canva and Figma. The following op/ed comes from Adam Hasslert, CEO of music creation platform Soundation
News Rough Trade Publishing inks global deal with Utopia-owned Sentric Deal comes a year after Sentric Music Group was acquired by Switzerland-headquartered fintech company Utopia Music
News SiriusXM slashes workforce by 8%, impacting 475 roles SiriusXM had 5,869 full-time and part-time employees at the end of 2022
News UK-headquartered Primary Talent parts from talent giant CAA in deal led by CEO Matt Bates Company's clients include The 1975, The Cure, Lana Del Rey, Noel Gallagher, Jack Harlow, alt-J, Dropkick Murphys, and Patti Smith.
News In victory for HYBE, SM Entertainment ends Kakao deal as court blocks firm from issuing new shares Seoul court grants provisional injunction to block the company from issuing new shares
News BMG strikes partnership with Sweden-based artist management company Scandinavian Talent Management STM specializes in music supervision, music publishing, and live events
News Manan Vohra upped to Chief Technology Officer at Downtown, alongside series of exec promotions Manan Vohra promoted to Chief Technology Officer role, Harmen Hemminga named VP of Product and Services Strategy, Gareth Mellor now VP, Global Marketing and Communications for Downtown Music Holdings
Analysis News From Universal’s billions to Deezer’s new Board Director… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories on MBW from the past seven days
News Milk & Honey signs trio of new clients, all songwriter/producers behind chart hits: JHart, The Elements, and Alexis Kesselman M&H founder, Lucas Keller, calls JHart "one of the greatest songwriters and voices in the business"
Analysis News Universal Music Group generated more than $1bn per quarter, on average, from recorded music subscription streaming in 2022 UMG posts double-digit YoY growth (just!) in its recorded music subscription streaming revenues
News HYBE says it ‘has been considering the acquisition of SM Entertainment for a long time’ as it launches campaign to win support from SM shareholders HYBE says campaign was developed "to protect shareholder value from inappropriate actions by the current management at SM".
News Shamal Ranasinghe appointed Chief Business Officer at Web3 music streaming platform Audius Exec joins Audius from SiriusXM/Pandora