News DistroKid enters NFT market with ‘Sellouts’, mints 10,000 collectible NFTs ILOVEMAKONNEN, Ricky Desktop and Ryan Oakes are early participating musicians
News Joie Manda launches Encore Recordings, Ned Monahan to join as General Manager Manda previously served as Executive Vice President of Interscope Geffen A&M
News Warner Music Group is now a serious modern media publisher – and it’s axing the historic WEA brand to prove it Stat Of The Week: How Warner Music Group has built a collection of owned media brands that reach nearly 250 million people a month
News Downtown Music Services inks publishing deal with French band AIR The deal covers the band's full back catalogue
News Ryan Press promoted to President, North America at Warner Chappell Music He will have a focus on the US and Canada and will continue to report to WCM Co-Chairs, CEO Guy Moot and COO Carianne Marshall
Blog ‘Vinyl is magical, my collection will forever be my pride and joy, but it has many parallels with the NFT experience.’ This MBW op/ed comes from Australian tech entrepreneur Max Shand, founder of music tech company Serenade
News TIDAL to launch user-centric royalties system and direct-to-artist payments TIDAL makes raft of announcements around membership tiers and artist payments
News Warner just raised $535 million in debt to buy… something. But what will it be? Could Warner swoop for 300, Concord – or something else entirely?
News Curve Royalty Systems launches into the US, names Sam Spainhower as head of operations in the market The announcement comes after Curve expanded its roster of clients in New York, Nashville and Los Angeles
News Warner Music Group stock slides 9.7% in two days as Bank Of America cuts rating… but WMG is still worth over $25bn Jessica Reif Cohen and Bank of America are pessimistic over future growth for Warner's valuation
Interviews ‘The music industry can feel like playing the lottery for musicians. But those building communities on Twitch are getting rewarded.’ Twitch's Tracy Chan answers MBW's questions
News CTM Outlander buys music rights from Grammy-winning songwriter Natalie Hemby Catalog consists of 189 released songs
News TuneCore launches service for DIY artists to distribute music to social platforms like TikTok and Instagram Company has introduced a new service for artists to distribute music directly into music libraries of social media platforms
News Universal Music Group targets ‘name and likeness’ acquisitions in partnership with Authentic Brands Group UMG challenges Primary Wave et al with new acquisitive partnership
Analysis Blog Wax on, wax off: unblocking the great vinyl logjam Columnist Eamonn Forde's 12-point checklist to fix the vinyl backlog
News Daniel Lang promoted to VP, International Digital Licensing & Society Relations at Warner Chappell Lang moves into his new role after serving as Vice President, Digital Licensing, EMEIA for Warner Chappell Music
News Hipgnosis Songs Fund share price hits all-time high on London Stock Exchange Merck Mercuriadis' company is worth 22.87% more than it was when it hit the stock exchange in 2018
News Scott Clayton joins UTA as Co-Head of Global Music Clayton takes on his role alongside existing UTA Global Music Co-Heads Sam Kirby Yoh and David Zedeck