News Annie Aberle promoted to Vice President, A&R at PULSE Music Group Aberle was previously Senior Creative Director, PULSE Music Group
News Spotify quietly discontinues ‘Car Thing’ device shortly after US launch Device was unveiled by the streaming giant in April 2021
News Piracy tracking startup MUSO raises $3.9m from Puma Private Equity MUSO reports to have seen a 25% increase in general digital piracy year-on-year
News BMG buys Germany’s largest independent label, doubling its recorded music revenues in territory BMG says that deal 'redraws the map of the German music industry'
News Matt Gralen named Chief Financial Officer at Beatport Exec most recently served as EVP of Corporate Development at UnitedMasters
News Kyle Elwin appointed People and Culture Lead at Merlin 'The opportunity to help nurture the people and culture at Merlin is an incredible opportunity,' said Elwin
Analysis From Suffering to Recovering: The stats that explain why the UK music industry is set for a dramatic post-lockdown comeback. Will Page crunches the numbers of the UK's live recovery, and streaming habits, to suggest a major rebound for the wiser business
Analysis Blog ‘Streaming challenges can be met only by artists and labels working together.’ This MBW op/ed comes from Geoff Taylor, Chief Executive of the BPI, the UK’s trade body for the recorded music industry
Analysis Blog News How to justify Bruce Springsteen’s skyrocketing ticket prices MBW Reacts is a series of short comment pieces from the MBW team
Analysis News Sir Lucian Grainge on Universal’s new deal with Meta – and his belief that investment banks don’t ‘have the skill-sets or ability to exploit music rights’ Grainge was joined by Michael Nash and Boyd Muir on a call with analysts last week
Analysis News Is old music really exploding on TikTok, or has our definition of ‘catalog’ become outdated? New Chartmetric report shines a light on relevant data within much-discussed industry issue
News After raising $37m in January, Symphonic Distribution buys marketing agency, Streaming Promotions Founded in 2015, Streaming Promotions is based in Nashville
News Quincy Jones-backed NFT platform OneOf closes $8m funding round New capital brings OneOf’s total funding to over $72m to date
News TEG appoints Toby Leighton-Pope as Managing Director, TEG Europe Leighton-Pope was formerly the co-CEO of AEG Presents UK, from 2016 to December 2021
Analysis News From Meta losing Kobalt’s catalog to Universal’s $2.7bn in Q2… It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week - and why they matter
News Shopify invests in music commerce app Single The company has also launched token-gated commerce and content features to its app
News Luis Bonilla promoted to Chief Technology Officer at SoundExchange He previously served as the company's Senior Vice President of Operations
Analysis News Sony generated over $2bn from recorded music and publishing in calendar Q2; recorded music revenues were up 11.2% YoY Recorded music streaming revenues were up 7.9% YoY in the quarter, MBW calculates