News After selling stake to Live Nation, Veeps equips 60+ US venues with livestream technology Venues to get new tech include The Fillmore in San Francisco and Philadelphia, House of Blues in Chicago and New Orleans, The Wiltern in Los Angeles
News Cooking Vinyl launches catalog division with ‘aggressive acquisition policy’, headed by Steve Bunyan New department will be headed up by catalog industry veteran Steve Bunyan
Analysis ‘Popularity is by far the biggest determinant of success in streaming, just as it has been for every recorded format before it.’ The BPI's Geoff Taylor puts across his point of view on the UK's current streaming inquiry
Interviews ‘Creators are starting to see the true value in retaining ownership of their work.’ Sound Royalties founder Alex Heiche on the catalog acquisition market and what he’d change about the music business
News Spotify is officially a hardware maker now, as Car Thing arrives in the US Music streaming company's voice controlled smart device gets limited US release
News Brooke Salisbury promoted to General Manager of Warner’s ADA in the UK Exec joined ADA UK as Marketing Director in 2020
Blog How to fix streaming without wrecking music… This MBW blog comes from Paul Pacifico, CEO of the UK's Association of Independent Music (AIM)
News Germany’s recorded music revenues grew 9% to $2bn last year, thanks to streaming’s lockdown boom Streaming surges ahead in Germany, as CD continues to slide
News MBW’s Weekly Roundup: BMG x KKR, CTM, Universal, Eliah Seton, Matt Gudinski The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Clubhouse users can now pay money to creators, and the app gets 0% of it Invite-only social app has launched a direct payments feature
News Matt Gudinski assumes role of CEO at Mushroom Group, ‘determined to honour the great legacy’ of father Michael Gudinski He most recently held the role of Executive Director, Mushroom Group from 2013
News Kardinal Offishall appointed Senior Vice President, A&R at Universal Music Canada Artist and exec works closely with the company’s Urban Marketing team led by industry veteran Craig 'Big C' Mannix
News Patreon is now valued at $4bn after raising $155m in latest funding round Platform's creators have earned over $2bn since the company’s inception in 2013
News Official: Eliah Seton named President of SoundCloud Seton joins SoundCloud from Warner Music Group
News Another $1bn washes into the music business, as CTM partners with US fund to buy publishing and master rights Partnership has already acquired over 1,000 songs from TEN Music Group, including hits by Rihanna and Shakira
News Eliah Seton to join SoundCloud in a senior role? MBW sources indicate that Warner veteran has accepted a potentially game-changing role with Michael Weissman
News Tencent-owned music streaming service JOOX inks licensing deal with Merlin Agreement licenses Merlin content via JOOX’s ad-supported and premium tiers, as well as its karaoke feature
News Cat Kreidich named President of Warner’s ADA Former Sony exec Kreidich takes new role just months after joining Warner and ADA