News Shamrock just raised $196m to loan music and entertainment rights-holders money Fund targets owners of entertainment IP across the film, television, games, sports media rights and other content sectors, including music
News Jay Z’s Roc Nation makes VR move with purchase of SENSO tokens from $100m-backed Sensorium Corporation SENSO tokens are the in-platform currency of Sensorium Galaxy
News Beth Appleton joins music credit resource Jaxsta as Chief Marketing Officer Appleton previously served as the GM and SVP Marketing Australasia at Warner Music Australia
News Roberto Razzini steps down as Warner Chappell Music Italy Managing Director Razzini joined WCM Italy in 1990 as a Product Manager and became Head of International in 1993.
News Hipgnosis Songs Fund raises $215m with new share placing – as investor demand exceeds target Over-subscribed offer of new shares significantly boost warchest of acquisitive UK-listed firm
News Finneas O’Connell was the world’s No.1 songwriter on Spotify last year, says report Thomas Hull aka Kid Harpoon also did well on charts
News Sony Music Entertainment inks strategic partnership with Roblox Partnership follows collaborations in the past year including the Lil Nas X Virtual Concert and Zara Larsson Launch Party
News Britney Spears manager Larry Rudolph resigns after 25 years Rudolph co-founded ReignDeer Entertainment with Adam Leber in 2005
News UK Music industry Veteran Charlie Rapino appointed Vice President of Italy’s Artist First Rapino will assume overall responsibility for A&R and talent acquisition
Blog Music catalog sales are reaching an all time high. So how will AI music catalogs fit into this new matrix and what is their value? Rory Kenny, co-founder & CEO at Loudly examines the status of music catalogs today....
News Sentric Music Group’s Black Rock inks co-publishing deal with Electric Ibiza Electric Ibiza is one of Ibiza’s biggest events, label and artist management companies
News Hipgnosis has 36 songs in Spotify’s billion-plus streaming club… and more stats from the firm’s annual report Merck Mercuriadis states that, "Music has gone from being a discretionary or luxury purchase to very much being a utility."
News Tones and I was the world’s No.1 songwriter on streaming services last year, says new report Blokur's data hands crown to Toni Watson, who wrote 100% of Dance Monkey
Analysis News Queen’s music is making crazy money. Could it be worth over a billion dollars? MBW digs behind the finances of a band with true evergreen appeal
News Several ‘fake stream’ sites shut down in Brazil 'Streaming manipulation has no place in music; we continue to tackle it globally,' says IFPI Chief Executive, Frances Moore
News Portugual-based Lusitanian Music Publishing joins independent licensing agency IMPEL Company becomes the first Portuguese publisher to join IMPEL
News UK-based indie publisher B-Unique makes raft of new signings New signing Rob Harvey has worked with the likes of Joel Corry and Clean Bandit
Analysis News From Kobalt’s profitability to Scooter Braun’s new job: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the past five days – and why they matter