News As ByteDance IPO rumors resurface, TikTok hires for A&R execs in London and LA to ‘sign’ new artists Job ads for A&R Managers pop up in London, Los Angeles and Sao Paulo (Brazil).
Analysis Blog ‘What is currently an opaque black box of song royalties, needs to be transformed into a glass box.’ The following op/ed comes from Annabella Coldrick, Chief Executive of the UK's Music Managers Forum
Interviews Gunnar Greve: Alan Walker, the metaverse, and why Web3 will ‘completely change the music industry’ Alan Walker's manager and co-composer on the future of the music business – and breaking China
News The Chainsmokers are giving away a share of their streaming royalties for free, via Justin Blau’s NFT platform Royal Royal says The Chainsmokers will be making 5,000 NFTs that represent a collective 1% of their new album’s streaming royalties
News YouTube’s Q1 ad revenue was more than double what Spotify made across its entire business in Q1 YouTube's advertising revenues reached $6.87 billion in Q1 2022
News Brandon Silverstein’s S10 Films strikes partership with Simon Fuller S10 Films has several scripted and un-scripted projects in active development across TV, documentary, and audio mediums
Analysis News Snapchat owner sued by Swiss collection society for ‘refusing to pay authors and publishers for music on its platform’ SESAC applaud's SUISA's efforts to take Snap Inc to task over alleged copyright infringement
News Sonos is officially launching its own voice assistant The Sonos 'Voice Control' assistant will be available for US customers on June 1
News As rap continues to rule the charts in Germany, Apple Music expands Charlie Sloth’s Fire in the Booth freestyle series into the market Fire In The Booth Germany will be presented by DJ Maxxx
Interviews ‘Your ambition for an artist has to match their ambition for themselves.’ Lanre Gaba was promoted to one of the most important positions at Atlantic Records – Co-President of Black Music – earlier this year. She's paid her dues to get there.
News Sony Music Publishing teams with Domain Capital to acquire career-spanning catalog from hit songwriter Ashley Gorley. (MBW’s sources put the deal at $40m.) Gorley had three cuts featured on the standard version of the biggest album in the US last year, Morgan Wallen's Dangerous: The Double Album
News Distiller Music Group inks global publishing deal with Downtown Music Services Claire Bianchi also named as Distiller Publishing's new Head of A&R
News Shutterstock acquires stock video marketplace Pond5 for $210m, including a library of 1.6m royalty-free music tracks Pond5's customers include the likes of Netflix, Disney, NBC, BBC and Discovery Channel
News Primary Wave buys Bob Dylan’s share of The Traveling Wilburys Included in the deal are Dylan’s master royalties and neighboring rights royalties for both Traveling Wilburys albums, as well as the 2007 box set
News Universal’s Web3 label 10:22PM launches NFT collection and virtual world for metaverse band KINGSHIP NFTs will grant access to virtual world, plus music, products and token-gated experiences
News Amazon Music continues Latam expansion with launch in Argentina Amazon Music launched in Colombia and Chile in November
News Warner Music and Warner Chappell Music Spain launch The Music Station, a new HQ and creative hub in Madrid New space consists of more than 10,000 square meters
News Laura Lukanz named Head of Music Industry, UK, Australia & New Zealand, at Amazon Music Exec will oversee label relations, artist relations, programming and editorial for the streaming service