News Timbaland’s music marketplace Beatclub to join IBM startup Incubator Program Timbaland’s beat music marketplace will launch later this year
News Downtown Music Services signs five LoFi labels to roster The five labels' releases generate over 500 million streams each year
News Brazil’s SOCINPRO partners with Unison for Pan-European collection Deal marks the second agreement Unison has signed in the Brazilian territory this year
News LiveXLive rebrands as LiveOne, plans to spin out pay-per-view business as separate public company NASDAQ-traded company expects to change its stock symbol to LVO in the coming weeks.
News Round Hill Music Royalty Fund buys catalog from British producer and songwriter Tim Palmer Catalog includes 30 songs covering tracks from Pearl Jam and Ozzy Osbourne albums
News Maik Pallasch joins The Orchard as Managing Director of GSA, Eastern Europe and Russia Pallasch was previously Head Of Music GSA at Spotify
News SNEP snipes at Believe. Believe bites back. SNEP refuses to publish half-year data in France, blaming Believe for not contributing its figures
News Meet Universal Music Group’s new board UMG has published the names of the new 10-person board, as of September 20, 2021
Analysis News Vincent Bolloré is about to own $7bn-plus of Universal shares… and other things we learned from UMG’s new prospectus Prospectus published ahead of UMG's listing on the Amsterdam stock exchange on September 21
News Spotify Rival Anghami partners with Amazon to give Prime members in Saudi Arabia and UAE 6 months Anghami Plus for free Prime members in Saudi Arabia and the UAE will receive a free six-month subscription to Anghami Plus
News Republic Records China signs pop star Daisy Xue as its first artist Artist's hit The Love Party has been viewed over 4.5bn times on Douyin
News EMI Production Music rebrands as KPM Music KPM represents more than 40 labels and is home to a range of genres
News Cinq Music parent GoDigital acquires music finance company Sound Royalties in ‘high eight-figure’ deal Jason Peterson's company makes major move for US-based financing company
Analysis News Drake’s Certified Lover Boy had a huge first week on Spotify… but not as big as Scorpion’s The numbers are in.... and they show Drizzy's latest LP was around 60 million streams short of his record in week one
News US recorded music revenues grew $1.5bn in H1 2021 compared to the first half of last year Streaming accounted for 84% of total revenues for the period
News Reservoir inks global deal with Joni Mitchell Mitchell has released a total of 19 studio albums, and has received a total of nine Grammy Awards
News Live Nation to buy majority stake in Latin America’s biggest concert promoter for $450m Live Nation Entertainment is buying a majority (51%) stake in Mexico-based concert promoter OCESA Entretenimiento
News From Drake and Kanye’s blockbuster albums to Apple Music’s new DJ Mix technology: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up The biggest stories of the past five days – and why they matter