Interviews How ChartMetric, following a $2m seed round, is looking to change the music industry’s relationship with data Having raised seed capital last year, Chartmetric is now looking towards a fresh round of funding to help it become 'the default data analysis tool for the global music industry'
News PULSE Music Group inks JV with Ariana Grande collaborator Tommy Brown TBHits is a frequent collaborator with Ariana Grande
News UnitedMasters, valued at $550m, just launched its own beat marketplace Steve Stoute's UnitedMasters launches Beat Exchange, a platform for buying and selling beats
News Natina Nimene promoted to Executive Vice President, Promotion & Artist Relations, at Def Jam Recordings Nimene is one of Billboard's ‘Hip-Hop Power Players’, ‘Women In Music’ and a ‘40 Under 40’ honoree
News Mike Caren’s Artist Publishing Group inks deal with Chrishan in partnership with Warner Chappell Chrishan commented: "I couldn’t be more excited to join forces with APG and continue to work with my incredible publishing family at Warner Chappell."
News Is TikTok (or ByteDance) slowly morphing into a record company? Evidence is building that such a description might one day fit...
News Hi-Res music service Qobuz expands into Latin America and Portugal Qobuz is now available in 25 countries
News Splice just launched an AI-powered app that makes music with you New app CoSo uses AI to find sound samples from across the Splice catalog
News Quincy Jones’ OneOf teams with Warner-backed virtual concerts firm Wave to launch NFT for metaverse artist Teflon Sega 'Metaverse-born musical artist and producer' Teflon Sega has over 356,000 monthly Spotify listeners
Interviews ‘If the music industry wants to continue its exponential growth, its data backbone needs to become significantly more efficient.’ With partnerships in place with Warner, Deezer, FUGA and more, Verifi Media believes its patent-pending tech is a game-changer for music
News Ghanaian superstar Stonebwoy signs global Def Jam deal with Universal Artist to work with Def Jam Recordings in the US, Def Jam Africa across Africa and 0207 Def Jam in the UK
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