News YouTube says it paid the music industry over $4bn in the last 12 months Lyor Cohen wants to topple Spotify as the music biz's No.1 biggest royalty payer
News Twitch ‘disappointed’ with music publishing industry as it’s hit with 1,000 copyright infringement claims Twitch told its users on Friday (May 28) that it's been sent a "batch" of new take down notifications
News Uncategorized Eshy Gazit, manager of K-Pop stars Monsta X, to sell artist development firm Gramophone Media to LiveXLive Deal marks LiveXLive's 6th acquisition
News Amy Ortner joins Primary Wave Music as its General Counsel and member of Senior Executive Team Ortner will be based at Los Angeles office
News Ditto’s Opulous platform partners with Binance for exclusive NFTs from Lil Yachty, Kyle and other artists Binance's new NFT marketplace launches on June 24
Analysis 3 things to know about Believe’s finances, as it launches IPO at a €2 billion company valuation MBW breaks down Believe's finances to get a handle on the company as it launches its long-awaited IPO
News Jamila Thomas joins Motown Records as Vice President, Artist Marketing Thomas will oversee marketing strategies and campaigns across Motown’s roster of artists and partners
News Believe launches €300m Paris IPO following ‘most prolific quarter’ in its history "We have signed more artists and labels coming from traditional major record labels than ever in our history," says company's founder
Analysis Blog Making change in diversity as a woman in music Paulette Long OBE discusses material steps the industry needs to take to a more diverse tomorrow
News Universal Music India and Capitol Records team up on Jason Derulo re-work of Tesher’s global hit Jalebi Baby Two Universal companies have jointly signed a global deal with Tesher
Analysis News From Sony’s big spending to BTS streams on Spotify: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past five days in the global music business
News Mdundo and Vodacom Tanzania launch joint bundle for premium listening service The Kenya-founded music service has over 7 million active users per month
News Sony’s spent $1.4bn on music acquisitions in the last six months… and Rob Stringer’s not stopping there Stringer spoke at Sony Corporation's Investor Relations (IR) day today (May 27)
News Symphonic Distribution expands into Africa and Mexico Ariel Etbul will lead organization’s efforts in Mexico and Tamsanqa Ngxeketo to lead team in South Africa
News Canadian artist Ikky Singh launches 4N Records in partnership with Warner Music and Coalition Music Warner India launched last year under the helm of ex-Sony exec Jay Mehta
Interviews ‘For too long, Africa has been an afterthought for the global music industry.’ Temi Adeniji is relocating to Johannesburg at Warner Music – and has big plans for Africa's place in the global business
News HITCO Entertainment acquires stake in – and partners with – ‘revolutionary’ fan-funding platform Corite "Corite now gives fans the opportunity to actively back artists and be jointly awarded for any future success," says L.A. Reid. "It’s revolutionary.”
News Grammy-nominated producer Kehinde Hassan joins Splice as Director of Global Music Culture Hassan earned a Grammy nomination for his work on Childish Gambino’s Because The Internet