News Round Hill’s UK fund has acquired 5,600 songs since July, paying an average multiple of 17.9x Fresh information revealed in London Stock Exchange-traded fund's new filing
News Warner Music boss Steve Cooper: ‘The emergence of Web3 is going to further amplify the importance of music labels and publishers.’ Warner Music Group CEO Steve Cooper commented on Web3 on the firm's recent earnings call
News Samantha Tzovolos appointed Managing Director at Eventim Live Asia Mike Galt also appointed Senior Vice President of Touring for Asia
News Sharon Timure promoted to SVP, Head of Marketing, at Island Records Timure joined Island as a college intern, and has been with UMG for over 15 years
News Applications reopen for The Richard Antwi Scholarship in London Scholarship is funded by all three UK major record labels
Analysis News SoundCloud’s annual revenues topped $218m in 2020 – and it’s been making bold moves ever since MBW gets our hands on SoundCloud's results from 2020, and they reveal a 31% annual rise in revenues
News Jon Glass and Alasdair McMullan join SoundExchange Board of Directors Glass and McMullan will lend business development expertise and legal acumen to the organization
News Spotify and Amazon each considering takeover bids for UK podcast firm Audioboom (report) Audioboom's shows are downloaded more than 116m times each month
News Labels awarded $83m in lawsuit against operator of stream-ripping sites Over 300m individuals in the US used the sites from October 2017 to May 2021
News Oz McGuire named VP of A&R and Business Development at Symphonic Distribution McGuire was most recently Director, Label and Artist Partnerships at Ingrooves
News Grammy-winning songwriter Jordan Reynolds sells catalog to Warner Chappell, launches brokerage to help other writers do the same thing Reynolds has written six No.1 songs across three genres
Interviews ‘Artists really have to see Web3 as more than just a glorified fan club for the 21st Century.’ RCRDSHP founder Obie Fernandez on the future of the NFT market and the potential impact that Web3 could have on the music industry...
News Warner Music Group launches Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Institute Institute to offer range of educational programming from third-party experts and an Innovation Lab for employees
Analysis News From Sting selling his song catalog to the majors generating $20bn last year: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter
News Kristina ‘Red’ Tanner promoted to Partner at Activist Artists Management Chris Ruff has also joined the company as Head of Global Marketing
News Music licensing company PPL reached a record $128m in international collections last year Since 2006 PPL has collected nearly £700m ($951m) of international revenue.
News Sony Music’s $430m buyout of AWAL provisionally cleared by UK competition watchdog UK’s Competition and Markets Authority gives provisional decision – and it's good news for Sony
News Tracklib strikes licensing deal with BANDAI NAMCO to bring anime music samples to producers BANDAI NAMCO is also an operator of the music label Lantis