News As live music bounces back after lockdown, Spotify dips a toe into concert ticket business Spotify tests concert ticket sales direct to fans
News Dalia Ganz joins Warner Records as SVP, Digital Marketing Exec joins Warner Records following 17 years with The Walt Disney Company
Analysis Blog ‘As AI creative technologies become more common, the question of AI authorship is particularly important.’ In the following MBW op/ed, Dublin-based Barry Scannell copyright and authorship issues around AI-created art and music
News Island Records Promotes Steven Rowen to SVP, Head of International Marketing Rowen will continue to lead global marketing strategies across the Island roster
News Spotify’s online studio Soundtrap launches live collaboration, auto-save tools Soundtrap will showcase the new tools in a Spotify for Artists Masterclass video to be released Wednesday
Analysis News Music and travel startup Pollen falls into administration, three months after raising $150m Firm calls in restructuring experts Kroll
News Warner Music Canada inks exclusive worldwide distribution deal with indie label Chaos Club Digital Chaos Club Digital is a Vancouver-based music and technology company
News After raising $34m, beatBread strikes 11 new distributor partnerships across North America, Europe and Africa Company inks 'white label agreements' with 11 music distributors
News Deezer to expand in Germany via partnership with broadcaster RTL Spotify rival looking to employ the same strategy it used in Brazil, Deezer’s No.2 market
Analysis News Warner Music Group revenues up 12.1% in calendar Q2; recorded music streaming up 2.7% A mixed bag of results for Warner, but double-digit increase achieved nonetheless – even as ad-funded streaming growth slows
News Luke Armitage promoted to Senior Vice President of Astralwerks Armitage was previously Vice President of Marketing for Astralwerks
News Chris Maltese Joins Vydia as a Director of Label & Artist Relations Maltese will oversee an expanding Label & Artist Relations team while handling new client acquisitions and onboarding
Interviews ‘When we do get in the door, do we have to comply with the way things have always been?’ Adrian Sykes talk to hip-hop royalty and groundbreaking executive Cookie Pryce about her experiences as an artist and as a Black woman in the business on both sides of the Atlantic…
News Robert Gibbs joins UTA as a Partner and Co-Head of Atlanta office Exec was most recently the Head of Music at ICM Partners
Analysis News Reservoir revenues grow 46% to $24.3m in calendar Q2 Reservoir Media has published the financial results for its fiscal Q1 2023 (calendar Q2, 2022)
News TikTok goes on AI music-making and machine learning hiring spree TikTok and ByteDance are hiring for a number of highly-skilled specialists in machine learning and AI music creation
Analysis News From Live Nation’s 100m tickets to Concord’s eight-figure deal… It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week - and why they matter