News Spotify acquires Findaway to ‘revolutionize the audiobook space’ Findaway will continue to be led by Founder & CEO Mitch Kroll
News After making tens of millions on Roblox, Warner places another gaming investment bet Forte's tech enables economic features such as token wallets, non-fungible token (NFT) minting and selling
News Warner’s recorded music revenues just topped $1bn for the fourth straight quarter WMG has published its fiscal results for the three months to end of September
News Priya Dewan upped to VP, International Marketing, Asia Pacific and MD, Southeast Asia and Korea at The Orchard New position marks the company’s first Pan-Asian management role
News Three Six Zero founder Mark Gillespie named Senior Advisor to music NFT platform Opulous Opulous recently raised $500,000 with Lil Pump by selling slices of rights to artist's track as NFTs
News Denis Gorshkov joins Believe as MD for Russia and CIS Gorshkov will lead Believe's distribution, artist services and TuneCore across the region
News Snapchat inks licensing deal with Sony Music Entertainment Deal means that Snap now has partnerships in place with all three major labels
News As merch bounces back, Universal hires Matt Young to lead Bravado as President Ex-Warner executive will steer UMG's flagship merch company in post-pandemic era
Analysis News From the Astroworld tragedy to Universal’s new virtual band – It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The music industry's biggest few stories from the past week, and why they matter
News Vevo Artists To Watch 2022: Wet Leg, Willie Jones, Enny, Andy Rivera, Poupie Five more artists from the Vevo DSCVR Artists To Watch list take their turn in the spotlight
News Meet KINGSHIP, a new virtual group launched by Universal label 10:22PM 10:22PM founder Celine Joshua, 'engineered the landmark, first-ever exclusive agreement to create a metaverse group', according to Universal Music Group
News EMPIRE just paid a $1m advance to an artist in Bitcoin via Cash App EMPIRE says its payment to Money Man marks the first advance paid entirely in Bitcoin by a record label
News Bruno Mars fans join BTS ARMY and Taylor Swift fans on superfan app Fave Fave is a social media platform for superfans
News Grammy-winning producer Cirkut inks global deal with Universal Music Publishing Group Cirkut has written and produced for Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and The Weeknd
News Warner launches JV label MARV Music with British production company MARV, Colin Barlow joins as President First single will be a joint release with Parlophone from FKA Twigs featuring Central Cee
News What will be the aftermath of Travis Scott’s Astroworld? And is Vevo the major labels’ secret weapon? Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide
News Catch Point Rights Partners and M3 Music strike pact to source Latin Music catalog acquisition opportunities Firms to look for opportunities in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Chile, Argentina and Brazil
News Ingrooves expands into India, appoints Amit Sharma as Country Manager for the market Ingrooves has also signed global deals with artists Himesh Reshammiya and Yo Yo Honey Singh