News From songwriters’ streaming royalty rate win to Deezer’s IPO… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up… The big stories from the past week
News Trinh Tham joins Universal Music Canada as Senior Vice President, Revenue & Digital Strategy Tham will oversee UMC’s digital marketing, streaming and music strategy, data analytics and commercial affairs teams
News Ex-Spotify Head of Music Business Development Karibi Dagogo-Jack named Head of Music Partnerships at Roblox Exec's appointment forms part of a wider expansion of Roblox's global partnerships team
News Bob Dylan Ionic Original collector’s edition recording of Blowin’ In The Wind sells for $1.7m at auction Recording was cut during a special session with T Bone Burnett, on a so-called Ionic Original disc, the new analog format developed by Burnett
News Universal Music Group strikes licensing deal with African music service Mdundo Mdundo reports to have 17 million active monthly users across Africa
News Molly Neuman promoted to CMO of Downtown Music Holdings Neuman most recently served as President of Songtrust
News Pete Black named Director of Music at Bauer Media Audio UK Exec previously worked with Sony Music UK and The Orchard
News Tencent Music’s QQ Music becomes China’s first domestic streaming service to support Dolby Atmos sound Announcement marks the start of a strategic partnership between Tencent Music and Dolby
News After raising $4.5m, Keatly Haldeman’s Dequency officially launches Web3 music licensing marketplace Company raised $4.5m via an investment round led by Borderless Capital
News Songwriters Savan Kotecha and Carl Falk Gramer invest in Swedish sound tech company Audiodo Company claims that it can map out "a precise and thorough understanding of your hearing" in under three minutes
News Music veteran Irv Gotti sells stake in Murder Inc. master recordings to Iconoclast as part of $300m deal Los Angeles-based Iconoclast was founded by Olivier Chastan
News Live Nation acquires concerts division of Thailand-based entertainment company TERO Deal expands upon a joint venture between Live Nation and TERO launched in 2015
Analysis News When will TikTok start paying the music industry ‘properly’? The current 'buy-out' model is causing great concern amongst some music industry companies, MBW has learned
News Superstar songwriter, producer and artist Tainy renews global deal with Sony Music Publishing Tainy produced nine songs on Bad Bunny’s record-breaking album 'Un Verano Sin Ti', and has worked with Cardi B, Dua Lipa and Selena Gomez
News deadmau5’s PIXELYNX names ex Kobalt President and TIDAL CEO Richard Sanders as Group Strategy Advisor Paul Joffe also joins the company as COO, while Steve Wakeman is named Head of Production
News Travis Barker releases first NFT collection via LimeWire, as former file-sharing platform officially launches collectibles marketplace Rollout follows news in May that the platform had struck its first major label partnership with Universal Music Group
News Ajay ‘Charlie B’ Saxena, Nicholas Causarano and George Kalivas named A&R Directors at Warner Music Canada The trio of appointments represents a 'reset' of WM Canada's A&R team, it says