News Deezer goes public: Spotify rival makes stock market debut on Euronext Paris Deezer CEO Jeronimo Folgueira rings opening bell
News Rehegoo Music partners with B2B music firm Tuned Global to launch new background streaming service New streaming service is called Music for Spaces
News Arctic Monkeys’ label Domino grew its turnover by 31.6% in 2021, driven by strong catalog sales AM, the 2013-released fifth album from Arctic Monkeys was the UK’s No.1 best-selling independent album in 2021
News Iceland-based music making app Overtune raises $2m in seed funding Investors include Guitar Hero founder Charles Huang, and former CEO and Chairman of Sony Music UK, Nick Gatfield
News Sound recording copyright term to be extended to 70 years in New Zealand New Zealand's current copyright protection covers 50 years
News Paul Cormack promoted to General Manager at Better Noise Music Cormack previously served as Managing Director of Canada for the company
Interviews ‘A decade in music is a millennium in other industries.’ Downtown Music Services COO, Ben Patterson, answers MBW's questions
Interviews NFT company Serenade just raised USD $4.2 million. What’s it going to spend it on? Max Shand is the latest interviewee in our Trailblazers series
News Songwriters, rejoice: Spotify appeal FAILS to stop composers getting improved 15.1% streaming royalty rate in the US Bottom line: The streaming services are going to have to fork over a pile of cash to publishers and songwriters
Analysis News From Universal’s Frank Zappa catalog acquisition to Triller’s US IPO… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The big stories from the past week
News Alisha Outridge named Chief Technology & Product Officer at TuneCore Outridge is the first Chief Technology & Product Officer at the Believe-owned company
News TikTok rival Triller files to go public on Nasdaq via ‘the largest creator IPO in history’ Triller owns VERZUZ, Fangage, Julius and other subsidiaries, all bought via acquisition
News Anghami acquires events and concerts company Spotlight, as it expands into live entertainment Deal will see Spotlight Events become Anghami's arm for live events and concerts
News Independent rock and metal label Earache Records launches music distribution platform Earache says it will take a 10% cut of artists' royalties
News Kanye West sued for allegedly sampling Chicago House legend Marshall Jefferson’s music without permission Suit was filed by Ultra International Music Publishing in New York
News Brigitte Green promoted to Senior Vice President Film & TV Creative Licensing at Interscope Geffen A&M Records Green joined Interscope in 2018 as Vice President of Creative Licensing
News Kimberly Knoller named Chief Marketing Officer at deadmau5’s metaverse platform PIXELYNX Exec will oversee all marketing strategy and execution for PIXELYNX and its first game, ELYNXIR