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
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