News Songtradr buys AI metadata and music search company, Musicube Musicube uses neural networks and proprietary artificial intelligence
News TuneCore overhauls pricing to offer unlimited music distribution for a single annual fee – laying down gauntlet to rivals like DistroKid TuneCore’s new Unlimited release program lets artists distribute as many releases as they like for an upfront annual fee
News Universal Music Group launches Virgin Music Label & Artist Services in Africa Division launches with over 15,000 titles in its catalog
News PPL CEO Peter Leathem re-elected to the Board of global trade body SCAPR Exec was re-elected to the Board for a second four-year term
News Chief Keef partners with RBC Records/BMG to launch new label venture 43B Los Angeles-based hip-hop/rap label RBC was acquired by BMG in 2018
News Tim Blacksmith and Danny D awarded for services to music in Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours Tim Blacksmith and Danny D receive MBEs for services to music
Analysis News The major labels face an uphill battle for streaming market share. Here’s how they might fight back. The majors and Merlin have lost 10% of market share on Spotify in the past four years. What are they going to do about it?
News The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas sells stake in publishing catalog to Primary Wave in ‘multi-million dollar deal’ Company says deal includes 'share of music publishing on all Strokes compositions, as well as his share of master copyrights and master royalties'
News Juan Paz joins Apple Music as Global Head of Latin Music Business Paz was previously Managing Director of Warner Music Group's ADA Latin America & Iberia
News Live Nation expands Latin touring team with four new hires Daryivett Romo has joined the company as Director of Latin Tour Marketing
News Ben Kline and Cris Lacy named Co-Presidents of Warner Music Nashville, as John Esposito transitions to Chairman Emeritus role Warner Music Nashville reveals leadership shakeup
News Jennifer Caserta named Head of People at SoundCloud Caserta is responsible for developing and executing the human resources strategy
News From The Weeknd’s ‘crypto powered’ tour to BeatStars’ $200m paid out to creators: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
News The Weeknd partners with Binance for ‘first crypto powered world tour’ Binance to release exclusive NFT collection, along with co-branded tour merchandise
News Carol Ding appointed Senior Vice President & Head of Digital and Commercial at Universal Music Greater China Exec will be based in Beijing
News Music marketplace BeatStars has paid out $200m to creators to date Payout update was revealed by founder Abe Batshon on Twitch on Wednesday (June 1)
News Taylor Vaughn promoted to Vice President, Media at Republic Records Prior to joining the Republic Records team in 2014, Vaughn spent three years at Epic Records