Analysis Blog It’s time to stop romanticising the music business ‘radical’ The following op/ed comes from long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde
News Believe generated €1bn in Digital Music Sales last year DMS is the revenue generated from digital store partners and social media platforms before royalty payment to artists and labels
News Songtradr to acquire 7digital, a UK publicly listed B2B music technology company, in $23.4m deal 7digital provides a catalog of over 80 million licensed tracks and offers API services to power music in apps
Analysis Is TikTok about to pull off a heist on the music industry? Could indie tracks and AI music successfully replace major label music on the platform?
News Zach Bryan signs global publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music Artist and songwriter has more than one billion global streams
News Utopia sells music directory platform ROSTR back to founders Founders Mark Williamson and Adam Watson re-acquire ROSTR
News Warner to buy majority stake in India-based digital media and music firm, Divo Divo is claimed to be the largest digital media and music company in South India
News Hipgnosis acquires song catalog of Tobias Jesso Jr., who was just named Songwriter Of The Year at the Grammys He was named as the first-ever Grammy Songwriter of the Year at this year's Grammy Awards
News Scott Cohen-led startup JKBX partners with electronic market maker GTS to take music rights investing ‘to the masses’ Platform to securitize and fractionalize royalty streams
News South Korea’s Kakao buys 9.05% stake in K-Pop giant SM Entertainment worth $172.8m Capital raised through the deal will fund new multi-label system, SM 3.0
News Concord has a new CEO, as Bob Valentine succeeds Scott Pascucci in management transition News follows a similar shake-up at BMG
News Robert Kyncl’s latest hire at Warner Music: The ex-Google exec who helped build YouTube’s ContentID Ariel Bardin was Chief Product Officer at Celonis prior to joining WMG
News TikTok launches DIY distro service SoundOn in Australia, the same week it started limiting access to major label music in the market SoundOn was already Live in the UK, US, Brazil and Indonesia
News Major record company market share on Spotify fell again in 2022, as indie tracks flooded the service Companies including TuneCore and parent Believe are eating into market share that was traditionally held by larger companies
News Milk & Honey and Reservoir’s Award Season party draws top artists, songwriters, and executives in Los Angeles Top music creators, executives, and entrepreneurs attend packed party in Hollywood
News Goldman Sachs leads new $110m investment in live entertainment tech company Fever News of the investment comes a year after closing a previous funding round of $227 million
Interviews ‘Songs are the engine of the music industry and sometimes people can lose sight of that’ Amy Allen discusses writing some of the biggest pop hits of recent times, the joy of collaborating and making Grammy history
News Primary Wave Music strikes ‘multimillion-dollar deal’ with Stevie Van Zandt Deal includes stake in producer royalties from his work with Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, along with band member and producer royalties from his collaboration with Bruce Springsteen