News Scott Cohen to exit Warner as Chief Innovation Officer Warner hired Cohen to the newly created position of Chief Innovation Officer, Recorded Music back in March 2019
News Kobalt Neighbouring Rights changes name to Kollective Neighbouring Rights, launches platform powered by The Orchard Name change follows Sony Music's acquisition of KNR, along with AWAL, from Kobalt in May 2021
Interviews ‘I’m confident that in the future, 15-20% of all music on the global charts will be by African artists.’ MBW’s World Leaders series interviews Martin Nielsen, CEO of African music streaming service Mdundo
News Reservoir and PopArabia acquire Lebanese label and music publisher, Voice of Beirut Reservoir says that the acquisition builds on its emerging markets strategy
News Chuck D sells catalog to Reach Music Publishing Company buys 50% of copyright ownership interest and 100% of the writer’s share, including global administration rights, to Chuck D’s catalog
Analysis News YouTube says it paid the music industry over $6bn in the past year – with around $2bn coming from UGC Right now, YouTube and Spotify appear to be keeping pace with one another
Analysis News Universal acquires mtheory’s label division; JT Myers and Nat Pastor to run UMG’s global artist services business Execs appointed Co-CEOs of a new global division, Virgin Music Group
Analysis News Sir Lucian Grainge on streaming growth, catalog deals and the balance of power between labels vs. DSPs Universal's Chairman and CEO participated in a Q&A session at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference
News Béatrice Dumurgier appointed Chief Operating Officer of Believe Exec "has a proven track record of successfully steering and scaling businesses", says Believe
News Warner Music, Universal Music sued for patent infringement by Blue Spike over MQA encoding process The cases against the two music giants is in relation to their partnership with MQA Ltd.
Interviews ‘With production music, there are no limits on the opportunities we can bring emerging talent.’ West One Music’s Global CEO Edwin Cox tells us more about the firm's origins, the evolution of the production music space, and how the globalisation of media has changed the way the company licenses its music
News 2,000 artists and creatives in Ireland to be paid basic income of $330 per week under new pilot scheme Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts pilot is a three-year research project
News Frank Rogers promoted to Chief Creative Officer at Spirit Music Group Rogers will continue to oversee Spirit Music Nashville’s operational activities
News Gaana scraps free tier after failing to raise new investment Gaana moves to paid subscription model
News From Kobalt’s sale, to Sony Music’s Russian exit: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up The biggest music biz news stories of the week, all in one place
News Vevo sponsors Artist To Watch category at 2022 A&R Awards World's leading music video network signs up as sponsor at this year's A&R Awards
News iHeartMedia inks partnership with Interval Presents, Warner Music Group’s new podcast network The two companies will co-produce a slate of weekly and limited-run podcasts, distributed through the iHeartPodcast Network
News Sony Music Publishing to support MBW’s new ‘Key Songs… In The Life Of’ series The SMP-supported 'Key Songs' series will kick off later this month (September), featuring a much-respected C-suite figure from the US music industry.