News Universal Music Nashville Chairman and CEO Mike Dungan to retire Executive to step down from CEO role after more than four decades in music business
News Ex-Lollapalooza Berlin booker Stefan Lehmkuhl joins BMG’s live music push in Germany Lehmkuhl has curated and produced music events such as Melt Festival, splash!, and Lollapalooza Berlin
News Universal Music Group opens its first ‘music-based experiential hotel’ in Madrid Aside from a theater, the 130-room hotel also features a fitness room, an outdoor pool, a bar ampitheater, three meeting rooms, a two-level solarium, a rooftop bar, an onsite restaurant, an event space and a pool bar
Interviews ‘Being a publisher in 2023 is so different to what it was previously — you can’t just sit there and hope the song’s value will be appreciated, you’ve got to do the work.’ MBW's Inspiring Women series interviews Warner Chappell Music COO and Co-Chair Carianne Marshall
Analysis News The story of Trefuego’s TikTok hit 90mh – and Sony’s bid to scrub it from the internet It was a TikTok viral hit with hundreds of millions of streams – before Sony issued a copyright takedown. But five months on, it won't go away.
Analysis Blog At least let the CD die with some dignity The following op/ed comes from long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde
Analysis Blog ‘Artists won’t stop fighting until large broadcast corporations pay fairly for music.’ The following op/ed comes from Michael Huppe, President & CEO of US performance rights organization, SoundExchange
News Sony Music and Todd Moscowitz launch new artist and label services company, Santa Anna Based in New York, Santa Anna will be led by Lee L’Heureux
News Mary Ashley Johnson upped to EVP, Sales and Artist & Label Management, North America at The Orchard; Katie Studley named VP, Nashville Both will report to Colleen Theis, The Orchard’s Chief Operating Officer
News Sony Music settles trademark lawsuit over Future’s ‘High Off Life’ album Complaint was originally filed in 2020
News From the 5 stats that will define the music business in 2023 to UMG being sued over its Spotify equity ownership… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up Our biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip
News Triller didn’t end up completing an IPO in 2022. Now it’s being sued by Universal Music Group Complaint follows lawsuit filed by Sony Music in 2022
News Vevo partners with TikTok to launch weekly ‘trending on TikTok’ show Show will round up the music videos of the top trending songs on TikTok
News Amazon is cutting over 18,000 jobs, not 10,000 Layoffs at Amazon follow similar moves by other tech giants
Analysis News Universal Music Group sued over its Spotify equity ownership by artist in class action lawsuit Black Sheep says it should have received equity from UMG's holding in Daniel Ek's company
News Downtown Music Holdings acquires Curve Royalty Systems Company was founded in 2019 by Tom Allen, Richard Leach and Ray Bush
News U2, The Killers producer Steve Lillywhite sells music rights to Round Hill Deal includes producer royalties and related rights
Analysis News 5 numbers that will come to define the music business in 2023 MBW picks out a handful of statistics underpinning some of the red-hot issues bubbling away as we type...