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
Analysis Blog PPL CEO Peter Leathem on the impact of COVID, emergency measures and a positive future Collection society boss reflects on "one of the most challenging years in PPL's history"
News TuneCore and Believe partner with YouTube to provide music for TikTok rival Shorts Deal follows Shorts' recent US launch
News NetEase to spin off music streaming service in $1bn Hong Kong IPO Application was filed in Hong Kong on Wednesday, May 26
News Big move for Sony Music, as Nas’s Mass Appeal label inks deal with The Orchard Deal brings to an end Mass Appeal's three-year global distribution deal with Universal Music Group
News SoundCloud’s Repost partners with Linda Perry, T-Pain’s Nappy Boy Entertainment and others to develop ‘promising independent artists’ Repost will create marketing and distribution plans to support breaking artists
Interviews ‘In some ways, I think the label model as we know it is dead.’ How French company Throne Music plans to sign, innovate and partner its way to success in the States
News Music NFT platform OneOf, co-founded in partnership with Quincy Jones, raises $63m in seed funding Doja Cat, H.E.R., Quincy Jones, John Legend and others will release NFTs via the platform
News German promoter FKP Scorpio makes raft of new hires in the UK FKP Scorpio UK office launched late last year
News KKR-backed Artlist joins independent music publishers’ agency IMPEL Artlist is a creative technology company that provides video creators with over half a million digital assets