News Christina Erskine joins Warner Music as SVP Marketing & Promotions Australasia Cathy Oates and Rich Wiles have also joined the company
News Universal’s Virgin Music Label & Artist Services inks global distribution deal with Serbian hip-hop label Balkaton Balkaton is home to regional artists such as Rasta, Alen Sakić and Link
News Nancy Dubuc joins Warner Music Group Board of Directors Dubuc is currently Chief Executive Officer of VICE Media Group
Analysis News Over 66% of all music listening in the US is now of catalog records, rather than new releases New MRC Data report shows how catalog has increased its dominance over new music in 2021
News Maneskin end Olivia Rodrigo’s 7 week run at No.1 on Spotify’s Weekly Global Top 200 chart The band's Four Seasons cover Beggin' hit No.1 on Spotify's Weekly Top 200 Global Chart
News Natalie Waller elected Chair of Australia’s ARIA Waller has been a member of the ARIA Board since February 2019
News My Sweet Lorde: Are Plagiarism Cases Getting… Gentler? Eamonn Forde notes that more recent accusations of copycatting in music have ended cordially
News Could this technology, built by a Grammy-winning producer, blow up music’s ‘black box’ once and for all? SonicData believes its watermarking technology solves music's metadata problems
News Sony Music backs new Oasis documentary, produced by Noel and Liam Gallagher The film, Oasis Knebworth 1996, will be financed and distributed by Sony Music Entertainment
News BTS Butter co-writer Rufio Hooks signs worldwide publishing deal with Reservoir In May, Butter broke the all-time record for day-one streams on Spotify
Blog News Universal Music Africa and superstar French rapper Booba expand exclusive distribution deal, launch new label Deal will see the artist's entire catalog available for the first time across the African continent
News Spotify launches free Premium offer for TikTok users in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland and Turkey Eligible TikTok users can get three or four months free Spotify Premium, depending on the market
News Tencent Music forced to give up exclusive label deals in China (report) China’s State Administration of Market Regulation (SAMR) will also reportedly fine Tencent 500,000 yuan (approx. $77,150)
News TikTok rival YouTube Shorts expands beta into over 100 countries YouTube Shorts is launching a new set of features
News Justin Prakash promoted to CFO of Concord Music Publishing and Concord Theatricals Prakash replaces Kent Hoskins, who was promoted to CFO of Concord in March of this year
News Snoop Dogg to headline virtual festival on VenewLive – a livestream platform backed by HYBE, home of BTS VenewLive is a project from a JV between Big Hit and Kiswe called KBYK Live, in which YG Entertainment and Universal Music Group have also invested
News Over 500,000 artists manage their lyrics through Musixmatch. Now it’s expanding into distribution. New Musixmatch Pro service is set to launch in Q4 2021
News Virgin Music Label and Artist Services launches in Brazil Brazilian superstar duo Henrique & Juliano join the Work Show roster as first signings under the agreement