News Scooter Braun joins Asian reality YouTube show ‘&AUDITION – The Howling’ as Special Producer According to &Audition's website, Braun will sit alongside Japanese record producer Imai Ryosuke and South Korean rapper Zico as the final round's special producers.
News Defected Records acquired by former MD Wez Saunders, as founder Simon Dunmore moves to A&R Consultant role Saunders appointed CEO of the company
Analysis Blog Web3 can help the music industry save the planet. Serenade's Mike Walsh makes the case for the climate benefits of Web3 tech
Analysis News Sony Music Japan is building ‘the largest virtual talent development and management project in history’ MBW explores Sony Music Entertainment (Japan)'s virtual talent ambitions...
News BMI to slash ‘just under 10%’ of total workforce News comes just over a week after it was reported that BMI had scrapped a planned multi-billion dollar company sale
News Canada-based fund buys Albert Grossman’s commission rights to Janis Joplin, Gordon Lightfoot recordings Canada-based fund was formed through a partnership between ICM Asset Management and Crescendo Royalty Corporation in 2020
Analysis News Apple’s Shazam surpasses 70bn song recognitions Timeline of key milestones and stats released by Apple for its song recognition app, Shazam
News Concord on board as A&R Awards sponsor Global indie will sponsor Pop/R&B category at this year's A&R Awards
News From TikTok’s music patent to BMI scrapping sale plans… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up Our biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip
News NetEase Cloud Music added 872,000 paying subs in Q2, far less than Tencent Music’s 2.5m NCM and TME combined grew by fewer subs than Spotify in Q2
News Glassnote hires Alison Dannenberg Frost as Head of Sync and Licensing Alison Dannenberg Frost joins indie label, Glassnote Records, as Head of Sync and Licensing. She will work out of their Los Angeles office.
News Kobalt to launch NFT collection, becoming ‘first global music publisher to release a set of fully licensed direct-to-fan NFTs’ Music lyric NFT collection is called An Electro Revival, in collaboration with Ghanaian visual artist, Afroscope
News Allison Hamamura to head ONErpm’s Los Angeles office as GM ONErpm has also promoted Los Angeles-based Joseph Aldulaimi to VP of A&R
Analysis News Beggars Group profits jumped 55% in 2021, as US rights to Adele’s first 3 albums reverted back to XL Recordings UK-based company turned over GBP £80 million last year
Analysis News As new Shazam charts launch in 17 countries including Nigeria and Ghana, Apple Music hails app’s role in discovery of African music globally Shazam was acquired by Apple for $400 million in 2018
Analysis How artists are exploiting lax metadata protections by streaming services What if tagging the wrong artist pages on DSPs wasn't just a headache to resolve, but also a money-making scheme?
News Swizz Beatz and Timbaland hit Triller with $28m lawsuit over alleged missing Verzuz payments Livestreamed beat battle event was acquired by Triller in January 2021
News Sony Music Publishing opens Nigeria office, appoints Godwin Tom as MD Exec was most recently CEO of talent management company iManage Africa