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…
News Snapchat, which now reaches over 600m monthly users, inks Augmented Reality partnership with Live Nation Festival attendees will be able to use AR to 'try on merch, find friends' and more
News BMG acquires Primal Scream song rights BMG has acquired a 50% stake in the song interests of Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes and the late Robert Young, together with their neighbouring rights
News After TikTok and SoundCloud, Tencent Music is a distributor now too TME has already distributed and promoted more than 150,000 songs to overseas platforms
News The Weeknd signs publishing pact with Universal – and he’s thrown new recordings and merch into the package too The Weeknd has sold more than 75 million albums.
Analysis Blog Could the Music Catalog Rights Boom Generate Windfalls for Non-Superstars? YM&U Executive Manager, Alex Frankel, on tech that could expand the catalog rush to smaller artists and songwriters
News FUGA strikes distribution deal with Stockholm-based indie label YEAR0001 Ebba Guhnby also named Business Development Manager for the Nordics at FUGA
Interviews ‘If your management plan is to try and get a record to blow up on TikTok… you don’t have a plan.’ Crush Management founder Jonathan Daniel recalls bringing emo to the masses and reflects on 20 years at the top