Analysis News About that catalog music stat we published the other day… MRC Data has issued a correction to its numbers for 2021. As a result, MBW has had to re-run our own calculations based on that data.
News Darius Van Arman named Chairperson of Merlin, as indie label agency elects new Board He succeeds current Exceleration Music partner and former Epitaph executive Dave Hansen
News Tencent to acquire gaming device maker Black Shark to help it build the Metaverse (report) Black Shark to shift focus to virtual reality, says report
Interviews ‘These last 18 months have taught me resilience, determination and that you just have to figure it out and keep going.’ Amy Morgan, manager of Glass Animals, discusses breaking the Oxford band around the world, working with Polydor/Republic and dealing with imposter syndrome...
News Italy’s entire Top 20 albums and Top 10 singles in 2021 were from local artists Taxi Driver by Rkomi was the No.1 album in 2021
News Cosmos Music buys Ace Records catalog, including recordings by Etta James, B.B. King and more Catalog amounts to some 9,000 masters and 3,000 compositions
News Germany generated 165bn music streams in 2021… almost a fifth more than in 2020 716 million streams were generated on December 24 alone
News Arjun Pulijal named President of Capitol Music Group Arjun Pulijal first joined Capitol in 2013 as a Director of Marketing
News Universal Music Group makes raft of promotions across global Classics and Jazz division Liz Chew, Rachel Tregenza and George Irwin take on new roles
News Chloe Rowlatt promoted to Head of International at PPL Rowlatt joined the UK music licensing company in 2015
Analysis News At least $5 billion was spent on music rights acquisitions in 2021. Could 2022 be even bigger? MBW rifles back through our 2021 headlines to get a grip on just how huge a year it was for music rights buyouts
News Spotify is searching for a new Head of Global Hits… as SoundCloud seeks a new Global Head Of Music The companies are hiring for two significantly influential global roles
News Linda Walker promoted to SVP, Commercial, UK & Europe, at Warner Music UK Walker joined Warner Music in 1990
Analysis News From WMG’s $250m David Bowie deal to catalog claiming 82% of the US market: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter
News Chris Moradi joins Neil Jacobson’s Hallwood Media as SVP, Promotion & Licensing Moradi joins Hallwood from Interscope Geffen A&M Records
News Now John Legend sells: BMG and KKR buy catalog from All Of Me hitmaker Deal was executed in September last year, according to regulatory filing
News Apple Music expands Charlie Sloth’s Fire in the Booth series to Jamaica Acts appearing on the series include Sean Paul, Daddy1, Teejay, Runkus, Zebee and Skilibeng
Analysis Over 73% of the US music market is now claimed by catalog records, rather than new releases (UPDATE) MBW's analysis of latest MRC Data numbers show that less than a fifth of US market in H2 2021 was made up of new releases