News Songwriter Skyler Stonestreet sells catalog to Influence Media Partners in ‘multi-million dollar’ deal Stonestreet has written hits for Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, Dua Lipa and more
News Fan funding platform Corite enters Web3 partnership with superstar DJ and producer Alan Walker Walker has amassed over 50bn audio and video streams
News Cinq Music raises $100m from parent GoDigital to buy music rights, expand internationally GoDigital represents music from stars such as Anuel AA, Bad Bunny, and Jason Derulo
News Music distribution and payments platform Stem raises $20 million in fresh funding round Stem, which also raised $10 million in August 2020, has launched a number of financial tools for indie artists
News Confirmed: Deezer, with a $1.16bn valuation, is going public via merger with SPAC in France It was rumored last week – now it's a done deal
Interviews News Amy Thomson: How I’d Fix The Music Industry In 3 Easy Steps Hipgnosis' Chief Catalog Officer, Amy Thomson, on what she thinks needs to change in today's music biz
News From Sony’s $1bn Epic Games deal to Deezer’s IPO talks: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
News Merlin strikes partnership with South Korean streaming app FLO FLO was launched in 2018 by South Korea-headquartered Dreamus Company
News Warner to ‘mint shared memories as NFTs’ in partnership with $10m-backed Web3 startup POAP Atlantic Records rapper Kevin Gates will incorporate POAPs into his Khaza Tour
Analysis Blog Myth-understandings: what price truth in musical memoirs? Eamonn Forde explores mythology in music biopics and documentaries
News BMG to release first David Bowie film officially sanctioned by his estate Tony Visconti to serve as the film's music producer
News Universal’s merch company, Bravado, appoints Epic Rights co-founder Jesper Poulsen as General Manager Poulsen was mentored by his fellow Epic Rights co-founder, Dell Furano
News Both of the UK’s two biggest independent albums in 2021 were over 6 years old 2021's top-performing independent album in the UK was Arctic Monkeys' 2013 release, AM
News Seven years after its IPO collapsed, Deezer is in talks to to go public again – via a SPAC Len Blavatnik's Access took control of Deezer via an equity acquisition in 2016
News Universal files flurry of trademark applications for Bored Ape NFT that hint at crypto and merch plans Universal's Web3 label 10:22PM bought a Bored Ape NFT for over $350,000 in March
News Epic Games is building a new creator marketplace – and music looks likely to play a key role MBW spots job ad that hints something big is coming, following Epic's Bandcamp and Harmonix buys
News Create Music Group buys majority interest in YouTube channel network The Nations, launches Web3 JV Deal also includes the acquisition of the independent record label Lowly.
News Spotify integrates live audio streaming into main app, rebrands Greenroom as Spotify Live Spotify Live will bring Spotify's live capabilities directly on to the Spotify app