News From Believe’s $600m IPO to Hipgnosis and Influence Media’s catalog deals: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Reservoir signs BRELAND to global publishing deal Deal includes BRELAND's full catalog, his 2020 track My Truck and future works
News Stones Throw Publishing signs with Songtrust for global publishing administration Songtrust powers global rights administration for over 350,000 writers and 3m works
News Former One Direction member Louis Tomlinson inks global deal with BMG for second album Tomlinson's solo work has generated over 1 billion streams
News Rod Wave was the biggest artist-songwriter in the US in Q1, with 10 certifications Top non-performing songwriter was Mike Dean with seven certifications
News Eric Franklin promoted to Vice President of Digital Account Strategy at Warner’s Rhino Entertainment Franklin was previously Senior Director of Digital Sales at Rhino
News Influence Media Partners buys catalog from Grammy-nominated songwriter Julia Michaels Firm launched a $100m fund in March to invest in catalogs of female music creators
News Want to play pretend at being a record company boss? Now you can, with a fully licensed catalog. Streaming tech firm Tuned Global will handle music ingestion, delivery and royalty reporting
News Bridget O’Gara Bloom joins Sentric Music Group as Head of Sync, North America Company also promotes Patrick Cloherty to Head of Sync, Europe
News YouTube launches $100m Shorts Fund to pay creators over course of 2021-2022 'Thousands of creators' will be paid for their content on Shorts, says YouTube
News Hipgnosis buys catalog from Grammy-winning producer Andy Wallace Acquisition includes 100% of his Producer, Mixer and Performance royalties
News Dan Rutman appointed Director, US & Canada at TuneCore Rutman is the founder of Solitaire Recordings
News Aimee Beren joins management company Hard 8//Working Group Artist manager joins firm with client awfultune
News Darcus Beese has signed a JV deal with a major record company. But which one? "The smart money's on Sony," says our source. "But Warner has definitely been in conversations too."
Interviews How Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia was born – and what it means for Warner Records Joe Kentish explains why he believes Dua Lipa is a top class songwriter in the modern industry
News Sony Music Publishing UK signs songwriter and producer Ben Jackson-Cook He recently acted as Rag’n’Bone Man’s musical director and primary collaborator
News Italy’s Artist First acquires 51% stake in digital media agency Officine Orange Company counts Samsung, Mercedes-Benz and Adidas among its existing clients
News Iain Watt is quitting YMU three years after it acquired his Machine Management Respected British artist manager is out at home of Clean Bandit and Years & Years