News Universal launches Def Jam India to support Indian & South Asian hip-hop talent New label division is dedicated to representing what UMG says is 'the best hip-hop and rap talent from the region'.
News Sandra Croft joins Downtown Music Services as Marketing Manager in the UK Chelsey Blow also named Client Services Coordinator at the company
News Warner strikes deal with sports music licensing company ClicknClear ClicknClear claims to be the world’s only specialist music rights tech and licensing company for performance sports
News Ben Lovett’s tvg hospitality raises $50m from investors including Irving Azoff, Coran Capshaw and Ryan Tedder tvg was founded by Ben Lovett of Grammy Award-winning band Mumford & Sons
News Dua Lipa will now be managed by her dad, as she splits with TaP after 8+ years It was confirmed last week that Dua Lipa had parted ways with her longtime manager
News EMPIRE launches ‘EMPIRE Africa’, with three executive hires in Nigeria Ezegozie Eze Jr. named as VP Market Development, Kareem Mobalaji as Regional Head West Africa, and Titilope Adesanya as Project Manager
News Warner Music India inks strategic partnership with pop star Armaan Malik New label will also release Armaan Malik’s Hindi non-film music
News UK music media entrepreneur and SBTV founder Jamal Edwards dies, aged 31 SBTV has helped launch the careers of some of the UK's biggest stars
Analysis News Kanye West just sold 10,000 Stem Players in 3 days… as he claims he rejected a $100m deal from Apple One of the most interesting release experiments in modern music is about to take place via Ye's Donda 2
News Dan Rutman joins Spotify as Head of Music Creator Partnerships Rutman was most recently Head of Business Development at TuneCore
Analysis News From SoundCloud’s $218m+ revenues to Snoop Dogg’s $44m+ worth of NFTs: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter
News Gülce Özyeşilpinar promoted into expanded role as GM, Warner Music Turkey and VP, Marketing, Eastern Mediterranean Özyeşilpınar will take on responsibility for marketing across Cyprus, Greece and Israel
Analysis News If you wanted to know why Sony Music bought AWAL… this is why The signing of girl in red to Columbia could be a key case study in the Sony-AWAL story
News Spotify acquires two podcast firms, Podsights and Chartable Podsights is a podcast advertising measurement service, and Chartable is a podcast analytics platform
News Barry McKee, Warner Chappell Music UK’s Head of Administration, passes away, aged 59 McKee had worked at WCM for more than 30 years
News Peloton releases video game ‘Lanebreak’, with Warner Music Group as a launch partner The first artist themed levels to launch on Lanebreak are two Warner-distributed artists: David Bowie and David Guetta.
News Avex USA and Sony Music Publishing strike global administration deal SMP will provide worldwide administration services (ex. Japan) to Avex USA’s catalog and roster
News Jhared ‘Jae’ Brown joins Island Records as Vice President, A&R Brown comes to Island after two years at indie label Rostrum Records