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
News Warner Music Group posts $1.38bn in calendar Q1 revenue, up 13.2% YoY Major sellers in the quarter included Ed Sheeran, Michael Bublé, Dua Lipa and Red Hot Chili Peppers
Analysis News Sony generated $1.99bn from recorded music and music publishing in calendar Q1, up 13.5% YoY MBW calculates growth in Sony's music publishing and recorded music revenues in calendar Q1
News Cristina Chavez named Vice President, A&R, at Universal Music Publishing Group Chavez will work closely with songwriters on UMPG’s existing roster, and will also identify and sign rising talent to the company
News Stef Teng joins Warner Music Group as Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Asia Teng's hiring follows the February launch of WMG's Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Institute
News Reservoir and PopArabia acquire Egyptian Record label 100COPIES Reservoir and PopArabia have also signed Egyptian rapper and singer Mohamed Ramadan to a worldwide publishing deal
News Chris Blackwell promoted to EVP of A&R and Content Strategy at Republic Records Blackwell will guide the creation and development of content for the entire Republic Records roster
Analysis News Last week, Daniel Ek bought $50m in Spotify stock. Today, Spotify’s share price sunk to an all-time low. Ek tweeted on Friday that he believed Spotify's "best days are ahead"