News After launching $100m fund, Influence Media buys catalog from Grammy-nominated songwriter Ali Tamposi Deal includes songs performed by Camila Cabello, Selena Gomez, Beyoncé, Shawn Mendes, Justin Bieber and BTS
Analysis Blog The music industry must respond to the greatest challenge humanity faces. Introducing EarthPercent. This MBW op/ed comes from Mike Smith, Global President of Downtown Music Publishing
News Italy’s Artist First buys stake in live music company Colorsound Agency Colorsound was founded over 40 years ago in Milan
Interviews Why SoundCloud has the music business right where it wants it. Michael Weissman, CEO of SoundCloud, answers MBW's questions on payout models, tipping, and where the music industry's headed
News Triari ‘Ari’ Senawirawan named Managing Director of Warner Music Indonesia Current MD Toto Widjojo is stepping down at the end of April
News SXSW is now 50% owned by Rolling Stone and Billboard parent (and MBW investor) P-MRC Austin conference and festival will return for an in-person event in March 2022
News From Reservoir’s $788m valuation to Spotify and Warner’s canoodling: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Poo Bear inks JV with Def Jam for his label Bearthday Music He has amassed nearly 300 major songwriting and production credits
News Warner Music Group and Spotify strike podcast development deal Original podcasts to be built around WMG’s artists’ and songwriters’ catalogs
News Tencent Music gets new CEO as Cussion Pang takes new role Zhu Liang (Ross Liang) appointed as Chief Executive Officer
News African music service uduX launches PopRev, an investment platform that lets fans buy shares in artists’ music Platform to launch in partnership with Nigeria-based FinTech firm PiggyVest
News Warner Music Asia launches Pan-Asian dance label, Whet Records First signing is producer and DJ Lizzy Wang
News Reservoir to list on the NASDAQ via SPAC merger with $788m valuation Reservoir has spent $400m on catalog acquisitions to date – and says it's going to keep on buying
News Triller has a new CEO… having just acquired 3 companies in 5 weeks Amplify.ai co-founder and CEO Mahi de Silva named CEO of TrillerNet, as Mike Lu transitions to role of President
Analysis News TikTok users watch the app for an average of 89 minutes per day – and there’s 732m of them worldwide Leaked pitch deck reveals a slew of the Bytedance app's key numbers in 2021
News Sherri Sosa joins Live Nation to oversee portfolio of 100+ venues in the US Exec hired as President of Venue Nation
News Sony pumps another $200m into Fortnite maker Epic Games as part of $1bn funding round MBW estimates that Sony now owns between 2% and 2.5% in Epic Games
Interviews UnitedMasters’ Steve Stoute: ‘Record companies’ ownership in artists’ intellectual property will diminish.’ Steve Stoute tells MBW about what Apple's investment means for UnitedMasters and gives us his predictions for the future role of record labels in the music industry...