News Tencent axes all exclusive label deals in China following antitrust clampdown Tencent published a statement on WeChat announcing that it has written to all "upstream copyright" holders to end their exclusive agreements
News Tamaki Yamashita named Director of SPACE SHOWER FUGA, as joint venture opens for business in Japan First announced in December 2020, the JV adds 15 Japanese DSPs to FUGA’s network of DSPs across APAC
Analysis Blog NFTs and Music Royalty Streams: 5 Legal Issues To Be Aware Of Three top lawyers from Covington & Burling spell out potential problems for rights-holders in the NFT space
News Natalie Madaj promoted to SVP, Global Digital at Warner Chappell Music Eric Mackay, EVP, Global Digital Strategy, to exit company
News Carolyn Williams appointed Executive Vice President at RCA Records Williams most recently served as RCA’s Executive Vice President, Marketing
News Tim Leiweke and Irving Azoff’s Oak View Group to merge with venue management firm Spectra Oak View was founded in 2015 by live industry heavyweights Tim Leiweke and Irving Azoff
News Roberto Neri, ex-Downtown EVP, joins Utopia Music as COO Fast-growing music tech company now has over 100 employees – and is continuing to staff up
News Hong Kong-based Allsaints Music Group raises $60m in series B round Company's investors include mobile device giants OPPO and Xiaomi
News Shanice Edwards to receive 2021 Richard Antwi Scholarship Edwards will be awarded a full scholarship for a place on the university’s Music Business Management MA course
News Susan Hilderley joins Universal Music Enterprises as Executive Vice President of Business Affairs Hilderley joins UMe from King, Holmes, Paterno & Soriano, LLP
News Bill Ackman: Universal and Warner are both under-valued… but UMG’s the right bet for us Billionaire investor explains his rationale for paying nearly $4 billion for 10% of Universal Music Group
News Vivendi sells additional 2.9% of Universal Music Group to Pershing Square for $1.15bn Pershing Square will now own 10% of UMG's share capital
News Warner Music Group strikes global licensing deal with social platform Kuaishou Kuaishou reports to have over 1 billion users worldwide
News BMG revenues up 9% in first half of 2021… and it has over $1bn of acquisition deals in play with KKR Recordings revenues were up 29.4% on the same period last year, says Hartwig Masuch
News Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic Apple Music plans to launch a dedicated classical music app next year combining Primephonic’s classical user interface with more added features
News From Universal Music impressing investors to Olivia Rodrigo giving credit where it’s due: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The news that mattered this week – and why it mattered
News Cee Barrett joins Kobalt as Director in Creative Division Barrett comes to Kobalt with over 10 years of experience in the artist and songwriter community
News Tomorrowland launches label, inks global distribution deal with Universal Music Tomorrow festival welcomes more than 400,000 people from 200 countries over two weekends