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
News Mark Jackson named Vice President, Head of Human Re Sources, Atlanta, at Human Re Sources The hiring marks the company's expansion into Atlanta
Interviews ‘For music rightsholders, Web3 is an opportunity for extraordinary growth.’ Tuned Global MD, Con Raso, tells MBW about the company's expansion into Web3, and its future plans
News Sonos strikes $100m deal to buy Netherlands-based speaker firm Mayht Sonos has acquired Mayht for approximately $10m in cash
News MBW is launching a new interview series, Trailblazers, supported by Believe Look out for our first interview in this series with Luis Sanchez – the CEO and founder of Mexico-based record label, AfinArte
Analysis News Latin music is on course to generate over $1 billion in the US in 2022 MBW calculations suggest that Latin music claimed a near-7% market share of US streaming revenues last year
News Marketing and distribution platform Intercept Music launches in partnership with Method Man Intercept Music is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sanwire Corporation
News Alex Kennedy named Managing Director for the UK at Believe Kennedy's appointment confirms the company's investment in the world’s 4th music market