News Meta offers royalty-free music library to Instagram Reels advertisers Meta says it saw an over 30% increase in the time people spent engaging with reels on Facebook and Instagram in Q2
News 88Rising and Epidemic Sound investor, Atwater, secures backing from Goldman, KKR for new fund, with $100m capital committed so far Founded by Vania Schlogel in 2017, Atwater invests exclusively in the media and entertainment sectors
News Michael Jackson Estate and Sony Music team up for ‘revelatory’ new Thriller documentary Thriller remains the biggest-selling album of all time
News Primary Wave strikes $2 billion deal with financial giant Brookfield to acquire music copyrights As part of the deal, Brookfield will acquire a significant minority interest in Primary Wave
News Spotify acquires Dublin-based content moderation startup Kinzen Acquisition comes three months after Spotify launched its 'Safety Advisory Council'
News Rose Cook promoted to SVP of Operations at SESAC Music Group Cook was formerly the SVP of Licensing Operations at SESAC Performing Rights
News US music data analytics firm Chartmetric acquires UK-based tech startup onesheet Artist marketing startup onesheet was co-founded by Stevie Elsworth and Mike Miller
News HYBE launches K-Pop NFT platform for fans of TOMORROW X TOGETHER, SEVENTEEN and more, via ‘LEVVELS’ JV LEVVELS is a Los Angeles-based joint venture company operated by HYBE and Dunamu
News Now Hipgnosis Songs Fund locks in interest rate swaps, providing ‘long term certainty’ to cost of borrowing Interest rate hedging has been one of the most viable solutions for companies that are dealing with millions of dollars in debt as central banks around the world continue to hike interest rates
News Angela Lopes promoted to Senior Vice President, Strategy and Investments at Sony Music SME has also announced Derek Lee's appointment as CFO of Alamo Records
Analysis News TikTok’s European business grew by 477% in 2021… but posted $896m pre-tax loss TikTok files financial results for its European business for 2021
Analysis News HYBE acquires fake voice AI company Supertone in $32m deal (report) Supertone generated global media attention in January 2021 with its so-called Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) technology.
Interviews ‘Generally, the more people involved in writing a song, the less personal it gets.’ Per Gessle on how he wrote Roxette's biggest hits but always felt like an outsider
News Song data startup Session, co-founded by Max Martin, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, Niclas Molinder, strikes partnership with SoundCloud Session Studio is embedded within DAWs to capture song information and data at the point of creation
News Donna Gryn promoted to EVP, Global Marketing Strategy at Republic Records Exec has been at the Universal Music Group-owned label for a decade
News Country superstar Blake Shelton sells catalog to Influence Media Partners Catalog ahs sold more than 10m albums worldwide to date
News Ralph W. Peer named Managing Director, peermusic Australia Exec will also continue directing peermusic initiatives as their Vice President of peermusic’s African and Middle East operations
News AEG to expand Global Partnerships division in Asia Pacific led by Matthew Zweck Exec promoted to Vice President, Global Partnerships, APAC