News Justin Timberlake sells song catalog to Hipgnosis and its $1bn-backed Blackstone fund Hipgnosis buys 100% of all of Timberlake’s copyright, ownership and financial interests of the Writer and Publisher’s Share of Public Performance income, and the catalog of musical compositions written by Justin Timberlake.
News Sony Music to expand unrecouped balance program to more artists and songwriters Sony Music is extending the program on a rolling basis
Interviews ‘Being straightforward and honest, not skirting around the issue, always yields the best results – and an understanding artist’ Adam Alpert on the rise of The Chainsmokers, the potential of Dove Cameron, hard work, good times and the future of the industry
News Pharrell Williams launches NFT platform, the Gallery of Digital Assets 'We’re focused on creating an equitable entity in this creator-centric landscape, so everyone can feel good about GODA,' said Pharrell
Interviews This AI expert just patented technology for Ingrooves that helps indie artists spend money smarter. SK Sharma, Ingrooves' Chief Analytics and AI Officer, on innovation in the music industry – and working with good people
News Mark Hoppus, Nick Lippman and Sherry Saeedi launch ‘venture capital-like’ artist incubator, Verswire Co-founders include veteran manager Nick Lippman and Veeps co-founder & COO Sherry Saeedi, with Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz serving as strategic advisor
News As Bad Bunny smashes Apple Music records, his manager Noah Assad says Latin Music will ‘keep growing’ Bad Bunny broke the record for the highest first-week streams worldwide for a Latin album in Apple Music history
News Sony Music Publishing inks global deal with Black River Publishing In the partnership, SMP will provide its global services to Black River's publishing catalog
News Social audio company Gimme Radio raises $3m Previous investors include iHeartMedia and The Orchard
News Warner Music Israel launches, headed by Mariah Mochiach Mochiach will report into Alfonso Perez-Soto, President of Emerging Markets, Warner Recorded Music
News Universal expands business in Czech Republic by relaunching six label brands Brands include Capitol Records, Island, Sky Box, Def Jam, SinglTon, Virgin Music Label & Artist Services.
News Genneah Turner appointed General Manager of The Featured Artists Coalition Turner joins during a period of expansion for the UK’s artist trade body, says FAC.
News Tim Pithouse joins Three Six Zero as President of Central Services, overseeing Marketing and Web3 Pithouse joins Three Six Zero from Sony Music's The Orchard, where he was Global Head of Artist & Label Services
Analysis Tencent Music and NetEase Cloud Music both added more paying music users than Spotify in Q1 NetEase Cloud Music added 7.8 million paying users in Q1; Tencent Music added 4.0 million
News SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo-man talks the metaverse and his ‘Future Vision of K-Pop’ SM Entertainment's founder and Chief Producer delivered a speech at Stanford University On Friday, May 20
News Is Elon Musk going to save the music industry? This MBW op/ed comes from Ran Geffen, founder of XR connect development agency OMR and CEO of Amusica Song Management in Israel
News Helen Sachdev named Chair of joint venture between PPL and PRS for Music Sachdev takes over from Teresa Robson-Capps, and will run a board that is made up of three PPL and three PRS for Music Directors
News Kakul Srivastava named new Splice CEO, as founder Steve Martocci transitions to new role Joining the company from Adobe, Srivastava has served on the Splice Board of Directors since 2021