News Warner Records strikes JV with Mel Carter’s Second Estate Records Carter will also serve as a consultant to the Warner Records A&R team
News A&R Icon Award to be sponsored by YouTube at A&R Awards in London Global music video giant supports category of legends at November's A&R Awards
News Apple Music reaches 100m song milestone. Rival Spotify has ‘over 80m’ on its own platform 'We’ve gone from 1,000 songs in your pocket to 100,000x that on Apple Music,' says Apple Music’s Global Head of Editorial Rachel Newman
News Soulwax’s classic 2ManyDJs album is finally coming to Spotify – kicking off the 40th anniversary celebrations of [PIAS] Kenny Gates and Michel Lambot launched [PIAS] in 1982
News UK music licensing company PPL paid out $16.4m of international revenue to performers and rightsholders in Q3 PPL says that its Q3 payout total is made up of international revenues collected from 73 CMOs worldwide
News Hipgnosis Songs Fund secures new $700m debt package, ‘materially’ reducing interest burden on its borrowing Hipgnosis Songs Fund is now looking to fix the rate applied to the majority of its debt
News Triller secures $310 million investment ahead of planned Q4 IPO The big money keeps on moving in the music industry...
Analysis News From Concord buying Phil Collins + Genesis bandmates catalogs to Pophouse’s Avicii rights deal… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up Our biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip
News Paul Hourican promoted to Global Head of Music Operations at TikTok He was previously Head of Music Operations, UK & EU
News Deezer-backed livestreaming startups Driift and Dreamstage merge, backed by $4.3m investment from Deezer Deezer becomes the largest shareholder of Driift.
News Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, and Tony Banks of Genesis sell rights to Concord in $300m deal Company says the 'combined music catalogs of Genesis and these three artists are some of the most commercially successful of all time'
News BMG just booked out one of Germany’s most prestigious theaters every night till the end of 2024 Today's news comes two years after BMG bought a majority stake in local live music promoter, Undercover
News Two thirds of TikTok’s viral hits are sparked by organic content, with no spend on advertising or influencers (report) Creative consulting agency ContraBrand publishes report on How Artists are Going Viral on TikTok in 2022
News The Weeknd-backed personalized song creation startup Songfinch raises $17m in Series A round Latest round brings the company’s total funding to-date to $21.8 million
News Get ready for Netflix series about Spotify, a ‘fictionalized account’ of the streaming platform’s rise Series to be released on Netflix on October 13
News Warner Music Group partners with NFT marketplace OpenSea to expand Web3 opportunities for its artists Collaboration to allow 'select WMG artists to build and extend their fan communities in Web3'
Analysis News After huge success with King & Prince in Japan, UMG signs Johnny & Associates boy band ‘Travis Japan’ to Capitol Records for global debut 'We are pleased to expand our working relationship with Julie and the great team at Johnny & Associates,' says Sir Lucian Grainge
News Facebook parent Meta asks court to dismiss Epidemic Sound’s $142m lawsuit Epidemic Sound sued Meta in July for alleged infringement