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
News BMG’s Global Head of Catalog Recordings, Peter Stack, to step down at end of 2022 Stack joined BMG in 2014 following the company's acquisition Union Square Music
Analysis News Still convinced that TikTok isn’t turning into a record company? ByteDance is hiring for A&R Manager positions in four key North American cities
Analysis News After 10 long years, the handcuffs are coming off Universal Music Group in Europe. In 2012, the European Commission banned UMG from making a wide range of deals in Europe. That ban just expired.
News Explorer1 Music buys crowdfunding platform Music Benefactors EX1 plans to relaunch Music Benefactors as a new technology and marketing platform
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