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
News Jenni Pfaff promoted to SVP, Head of Global Strategic Integration and Operations at Warner Chappell Music Jesse Dang has also joined as Senior Vice President of People
News Brian Nolan appointed Executive Vice President and EVP, Marketing at Motown Records In this new role, Nolan joins the label’s executive leadership team and will help guide the company
News Bang Si-hyuk steps down as CEO of HYBE, formerly known as Big Hit Entertainment New CEO of HYBE has been named as Park Ji-won
Analysis News Maneskin might be the music industry story of 2021… but they just split from their manager Maneskin now count over 29m monthly listeners on Spotify
News Indie labels loathe Spotify’s Discovery Mode – but DIY giants are loving it Believe and TuneCore have been testing Spotify's Discovery Mode tool
News Christian Johnson promoted to Senior Director of A&R at Hipgnosis Songs Group Hipgnosis own a music catalog worth over $2.2 billion
Interviews ‘The music industry’s shift to digital in Japan appears to be gaining traction.’ Line Music's Misaki Iki talks MBW through the Japanese market – and its future possibilities