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
News From Universal’s TIDAL partnership to TikTok limiting access to music in Australia… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up Our biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip
News Sony Music’s Santa Anna makes three exec appointments a month after launch Label was founded by Sony Music Entertainment (SME) and Todd Moscowitz in January
News Michelle Jubelirer premieres new-look Capitol Music Group at Town Hall event – including the return of Motown Los Angeles showcase saw performances from artists including Ice Spice and Niall Horan
News TikTok is trying to prove that it doesn’t need major label music – and the eyes of the industry are upon it. Service restricts access to major label music for subset of users in Australia
News Warner Music Group board member, Ceci Kurzman, joins UTA board alongside Paul Wachter Kurzman is the founder of Nexus Management
News Shamrock Capital, the firm that bought Taylor Swift’s masters, raises over $600m to expand content strategy Company has approximately $4.4bn of assets under management.
News British Government scraps plan for AI text and data mining copyright exception Copyright exception received significant backlash from the UK music industry
Interviews How Max Martin’s songwriting techniques are used to write hit, after hit, after hit Top40 Theory founder Asaf Peres on how he studied Max Martin's songs to build out his Melodic Math Course
News After reaching milestone of 60m creators, BandLab acquires beat marketplace Airbit Producers have earned more than $50 million on Airbit to date
News Dr. Dre’s The Chronic returns to streaming services via Interscope Records Original distributor Interscope worked The Chronic in 1992 via its relationship with Death Row Records
News Beatport snaps up majority stake in electronic dance music event, IMS Ibiza Deal follows a string of acquisitions by Beatport in recent months
News Hipgnosis is in buying mode again, as company snaps up song catalog of British hitmakers TMS Included in the TMS catalog are songs Someone You Loved and Before you Go, which were hits for Lewis Capaldi
News Music industry veteran Rob Gross joins The Syndicate as SVP, Label Services Exec will be bringing over several of his current clients
News Baroline Diaz launches Great Day Records label with Santa Anna and Alamo Records Great Day will be headquartered in New York
News SoundCloud renews US advertising partnership with SiriusXM’s sales force The extension enables advertisers and brands to continue purchasing SoundCloud’s US advertising inventory directly through SXM Media