News Tencent Music Entertainment goes public in Hong Kong TME has successfully listed on the Main Board of The Hong Kong Stock Exchange
News Sony Music catalog pulled from Resso, TikTok’s sister subscription platform Sources suggest Sony Music rejected commercial terms offered by platform
News HarbourView buys Big Loud Mountain Music’s publisher share of songs from Florida Georgia Line catalog Big Loud Mountain Music is a Nashville-based independent publishing, management, and production company
News Kobalt makes up with Meta: New deal struck to license 700,000 songs for Facebook 'We’re pleased to announce that Kobalt’s repertoire is once again licensed on Meta Platforms in the US,' states memo obtained by MBW
News Mike Caren’s APG and Luke Mitzman’s 100 Management strike partnership focusing on music producers and entrepreneurs First clients include Cirkut, Stargate and Alex Da Kid
News Gordan Dillard named Executive Vice President of A&R and Artist Development for Capitol Music Group Dillard, who will continue to manage Doja Cat at SALXCO, joins CMG's senior executive team
News Future sells publishing catalog to Influence Media Partners in ‘eight-figure’ deal Influence Media formed a $750m fund with asset management giant BlackRock and Warner Music Group
News Def Jam inks exclusive worldwide JV with Nigeria and UK-based NATIVE Records NATIVE Records is the music division of NATIVE Networks
News Warner sues Bang Energy for alleged infringement of nearly 200 recordings by artists including Dua Lipa, Lizzo and others Lawsuit follows similar lawsuits filed by Universal and Sony Music
News Milly Petriella named Managing Director of Milk & Honey Australasia Exec also appointed Director of Cultural and Social Responsibility for management company worldwide
News Pete Simmons promoted to Head of A&R UK at Universal Music Publishing Group Simmons joined UMPG as an A&R scout in 2014
News Love H. Whelchel named Chief People Officer at Downtown Music Holdings Exec has previously headed the human resources departments for agencies within WPP, IPG and Publicis
News Robert Kyncl now a very real candidate to become the new CEO of Warner Music Group, say MBW sources It's not a done deal yet, we hear. But as one source put it "this could now really happen, and it could happen soon – things are moving fast".
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News Confirmed: Concord acquires Hitco Entertainment record label assets Concord acquires HitCo's 'entire sound recording catalog and certain recent releases'
News Daniel Ek poured €100m into Helsing AI last year. The startup just partnered with a European arms manufacturer Daniel Ek-backed company strikes strategic partnership with Germany-based automotive and arms manufacturer, Rheinmetall
Analysis News Steve Cooper: Warner Music is becoming less financially dependent on superstar artists – and wants to see ‘regular’ streaming price rises Outgoing Warner boss tackled streaming price rises and more at Goldman Sachs event this week
News Sony Music scores partial victory in copyright infringement lawsuit against Bang Energy Legal action was initiated in August 2021