Interviews This company’s young artist has billions of YouTube views. It’s certain India is going to become one of the world’s biggest music markets. Hitz Music founder and Indian music industry veteran, Vinod Bhanushali talks us through his views of the market
News YouTube strikes partnership with Shopify, as platform expands e-commerce tools for creators All eligible creators can now access live shopping features
News BMG acquires music interests of Scottish rock band Simple Minds BMG says that the deal marks its eighth acquisition in the UK this year
News Sun-Ui Yum named Principal at Matt Pincus-led investment company, MUSIC Prior to joining MUSIC, Sun-Ui worked at the Raine Group
News Epidemic Sound investor EQT buys stake in talent agency UTA UTA was valued at $750 million following a funding round led by PSP Investments and Investcorp in 2018
News Italian Court Orders US Tech Giant CloudFlare to Block Access to BitTorrent Sites “CloudFlare’s services were making it possible for users to access copyright infringing websites which were ordered to be blocked by the Italian regulator AGCOM."
Analysis News It’s official: New music is SHRINKING in popularity in the United States MBW crunches the numbers in Luminate's latest half-year report
News Believe CEO accuses major record companies of lobbying streaming platforms to lower royalty rates for DIY artists Majors are pressuring the likes of Spotify to give superstars better rates, says French exec – and he doesn't love it
News Chris Herche named SVP Music Operations and Marketing at Create Music Group Herche will oversee the day-to-day operations of the company’s music division
News Sony Music Publishing signs Danger Mouse to global deal Danger Mouse is a Grammy award-winning artist, songwriter, producer, and composer
News African Music service Mdundo reached 20.3m Monthly Active Users last month, up 74% since June 2021 Mdundo's biggest country for Monthly Active Users is Nigeria, with a total of 4.9m
News Sony Music enters exclusive partnership with Egypt’s Craft Media to ‘sign Arabic superstars’ Craft Media was founded by prominent Arabic producer Hamdy Badr
Analysis News From Hipgnosis Songs Fund’s financial results to HYBE’s Disney deal… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up… The big stories from the past week
News Hipgnosis Songs Fund didn’t buy a single catalog in the 6 months to end of March. It still grew in value by $140m. Gross revenues topped $200m in the 12 months to end of March
News Aaron ‘Dash’ Sherrod named President of Urban A&R at Geffen Records He most recently served as Senior Vice President of A&R at RCA Records
News Diplo, Red Light Management, Kevin Liles and more join $12m round for social audio platform Stationhead Series A round was Led by Buttonwood Group Advisors
News Jessica Rivera joins SoundCloud as Global SVP & General Manager Maurice Slade also appointed Head of Marketing
News Jonathan Carmel appointed Web3 and NFT Lead at Symphonic Distribution Symphonic raised $37 million in a Series B round of funding in January 2022