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
News Wasserman Music acquires Paradigm’s UK live music business Wasserman Music launched in April 2021 with the acquisition of Paradigm’s North American live music representation business
News Warner Music Group launches in-house podcast network, Interval Presents, led by Allan Coye WMG labels and digital editorial brands will continue to produce podcast content under their own banners
Analysis Nearly 80% of artists on Spotify have fewer than 50 monthly listeners There is an ocean of music on Spotify that is a very long way from being popular
News After teaming up with SoundCloud, Splice partners with African music streaming service, Boomplay Companies to introduce 'beat battle' and new series of sample packs and collections called 'Beyond Afrobeats'
News Having paid $222m to artists in 2021, TuneCore has now surpassed total payouts of $2.5bn Artists using the platform have achieved 500bn streams and 700m downloads
News Glenn Mendlinger promoted to EVP of Republic Records and President of Imperial Music Mendlinger is based out of the company’s global headquarters in New York
Interviews News ‘Web3 will be a building block for every musician in the future.’ Justin Blau tells MBW how Royal wants to be positioned in the music business, and gives us his predictions for the NFT space...
News Nick Bral promoted to Vice President, Creative, at Sony Music Publishing Bral will be responsible for managing songwriter relations and fostering creative collaboration on behalf of the company’s U.S. roster
News NFT platform SoundMint raises $1.7m led by the Sandbox parent Animoca Brands SoundMint says that its NFTs are musical compositions derived from stems
News Mojo Music & Media acquires stakes in catalogs of Bob Morrison and Jerry Reed Mojo acquires 50% interest in the publishing catalog of Bob Morrison, and the writer share, artist and record royalties of Jerry Reed
News Live Nation launches in the Philippines, acquires promoter Music Management International Rhiza Pascua appointed Managing Director Live Nation Philippines