News Confirmed: Tencent Music to go public in Hong Kong without raising new funds Company confirms news reported earlier this week
News Jennifer Knoepfle joins Universal Music Publishing Group as Executive Vice President and Co-Head of US A&R Knoepfle joins UMPG from Sony Music Publishing, where she was most recently SVP, Creative
News Steven Gringer promoted to Vice President of A&R at PULSE Music Group Gringer was previously Senior Creative Director, PULSE Music Group
Analysis News Tencent Music planning Hong Kong Stock Exchange listing as soon as next week (report) Secondary listing plan comes after TME started trading on the New York Stock Exchange in December 2018
News Troy Carter’s Venice Music opens up to more indie artists with new subscription model Company is opening up its platform to a wider scale of artists through new subscription plans
News Round Hill acquires music royalty interests of legendary producer Bruce Fairbairn He worked with Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Van Halen and more
News Utopia buys UK physical music distributor Cinram Novum Utopia says the deal saves the UK company from insolvency and secures 300 jobs
News Peloton co-founders John Foley and Hisao Kushi exit; Karen Boone named as new Chairperson of the Board 'Their impact will resonate long after their departure,' Boone said
News Podcast subscription service Podimo raises $58.7m in fresh funding Latest raise follows Podimo's $78 million Series B round in November
News Niels Walboomers appointed President, Records and Publishing, Benelux at Warner Music Group Exec succeeds Martin Jessurun who steps down as President of Warner Music Benelux, and Arno Van Berkel, who exits as MD of Warner Chappell Music Benelux
Interviews Concord turned down a $5bn+ acquisition offer. It explains why – and where it’s going next. Concord CEO, Scott Pascucci, and President, Bob Valentine, map out an "aggressive" next five years for the US company
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