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
News Bryan Kehn promoted to Vice President of Media at Republic Records Kehn first joined Republic Records in 2013
News Safiya Lambie-Knight named Head of Music for the UK & Ireland at Spotify Exec has been promoted to the role from her previous position as Lead, Artist & Label Partnerships, UK & IE
News Targa Sahyoun and Nick Steinhardt named Senior Vice Presidents of Creative at Capitol Records Sahyoun and Steinhardt will co-lead the label’s creative department
News NetEase Cloud Music sues rival Tencent Music over ‘unfair competition’ claims NetEase announced the legal proceedings in a social media statement
Analysis News No Netflix problems here: Spotify added 2m net subscribers in Q1 – despite cutting off 1.5 million subs in Russia Spotiify beats guidance on various key metric for its business – when you factor in Russia – including users and subscribers
Analysis Spotify faces its most crucial earnings call yet. Here are the 3 difficult questions MBW would be asking. After Netflix's shocker of a Q1, all eyes are on Spotify's equivalent fiscal announcement. Here's what MBW would ask Daniel Ek.
Interviews ‘I would like to see more women brought into the boardroom. We have come a long way, but still have a lot of work to do.’ In this feature, Cris Falcão, Ingrooves Music Group's Managing Director in Brazil, tells us about her career in the music industry, challenges in the market, and her objectives for 2022
News Jackie Winkler promoted to Vice President, A&R, at Island Records Winkler joined Island in 2015 as A&R Director, working closely with artists such as Bishop Briggs
News Could one of these startups become the new TikTok or SoundCloud? Meet Techstars Music class of 2022.
News 135,000 artists are now getting paid through SoundCloud’s Fan-Powered Royalties platform Platform pledges to match 100% of revenue earned by independent artists on Friday, April 29
News Social music creation platform BandLab closes Series B funding round at $65m Prosus Ventures joins list of investors