News HYBE, home of BTS, sees revenues grow to $226m in Q1 2022, up 59.8% YoY HYBE generated South Korea Won (KRW) 285 billion in the three months ended March 31
News Believe generated revenues of $182m in Q1, up 30.9% YoY Believe also reports that its digital revenues were up 35.3% in Q1
News Amazon Music exec Sahas Malhotra joins JioSaavn as CEO Malhotra was most recently Director of Amazon Music in India
News Sony Music Publishing UK signs Ed Sheeran co-writer Kal Lavelle to global deal Kal Lavelle co-wrote Ed Sheeran’s No.1 hit Shivers
News Universal Music Publishing Group inks global deal with Glass Animals lead singer Dave Bayley In 2020, Glass Animals released the RIAA Triple Platinum hit Heat Waves, solely written and produced by Bayley
News Universal Music Group revenues hit $2.46bn in Q1 2022 Top sellers for the quarter included releases from Disney’s ‘Encanto’ Soundtrack, King & Prince, The Weeknd, Fujii Kaze and Ado
Interviews ‘I think a lot of managers just go through the motions rather than come up with new ways to do things; they leave the burden of creativity on the artists, but business should be creative as well’ In Part Two of our feature on Crush Management we talk to Bob McLynn about the firm's 20 years in the business and how managers need to be as creative as their artists
News Spotify just entered the metaverse, with official launch on Roblox Company becomes first music-streaming brand to have a presence on Roblox
Analysis News From The Weeknd’s Universal deal to Spotify’s Q1 results: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
Analysis News Spotify’s share price crash is a shocker for Daniel Ek. It won’t have best pleased music’s biggest companies. MBW crunches the numbers on Universal and Sony's ownership stakes in Daniel Ek's green machine
News Beth Appleton promoted to Chief Executive Officer at Australia-based music credit resource Jaxsta Jaxsta Founder Jacqui Louez-Schoorl is stepping down as CEO
News Lynn Gonzalez promoted to Executive Vice President, Head of Business Affairs and Business Development, at Def Jam Gonzalez will continue to manage the business and legal affairs for the company
News John Legend’s NFT platform just raised $7.5m, led by The Sandbox parent Animoca Brands 'We’re focused on democratizing NFTs for the masses,' said Our Happy Company co-founder and CEO Chris Lin
News Talenthouse acquires creative freelancer platform Creative Commission Talenthouse has also hired the team who built the data-driven marketing software Sponsokit
News DICE makes raft of executive hires across Europe and US Falko Mortiboys has been named VP Fan Experience, while Ali McCloud, Antony Jackson and Leon Sherman join the UK-born ticketing company
News Believe renews deals with NetEase Cloud Music and Tencent Music Entertainment 'We are thrilled to have renewed our deals with both TME and NetEase Cloud Music,' said Sylvain Delange, Believe's Managing Director, APAC
Interviews ‘I love the pressure, I love the deals, I love the win.’ Adrian Sykes interviews Atlantic Records’ Rich Castillo about his experiences, ambitions, passions and gripes within the UK music industry…