News Warner’s ADA Latin inks global deals with several prominent Latin music labels and artists Among them are EDM veteran Toy Selectah’s Worldwide Records and Los Angeles indie label Cosmica Records
News YouTube’s TikTok rival Shorts arrives in the US Launch partners include Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Merlin, 300 Entertainment, Kobalt
News How many artists are generating $50k+ a year on Spotify? Over 13,000. New Loud & Clear site sees Spotify pull back the curtain on the truth about streaming economics
News EMPIRE hires Elliott Peters as VP of Global Business Development, promotes Mike Gallegus to VP of Business and Legal Affairs Peters has previously worked for SoundCloud, Apple and Warner Music
News Hotly-tipped UK artist Holly Humberstone signs with Polydor, Interscope, and Darkroom Records Artist makes jump from Platoon to trio of Universal-affiliated labels
News France’s recorded music market generated revenues of $883m in 2020 Results were published today (March 16) by French trade body SNEP
News Warner Music Group joins $52.5m Series C funding round in gaming UGC platform Overwolf Company has raised over $75m to date
News Distiller Music Group signs global deal with Believe Global agreement includes new releases and back catalog
News Big Hit Global CEO Lenzo Yoon on K-Pop, BTS, their fans and the future of the global entertainment industry Big Hit Entertainment Global CEO Lenzo Yoon delivered a speech this week for SXSW Online
News Another nine-figure music industry acquisition is coming… and it’s Brazilian MBW understands that Som Livre is attracting interest at a $250m-plus valuation
News African distribution company Freeme Digital launches new services platform for indie rightsholders Freeme+ will provide A&R, marketing, sync licensing and publishing services for independent African rights holders
News Warner’s Parlophone Records and Atlas Artists ink joint venture First Atlas acts to work with Parlophone as part of the arrangement are KAM-BU, New Familiar and Rachel Chinouriri
News Luke Mitzman of 100 Management joins forces with PULSE Music Group Mitzman founded 100 Management in 2015 after negotiating the move of former client Zane Lowe from the UK’s BBC Radio 1 to Apple Music
News Sentric signs Tom Speight to exclusive songwriting agreement Singer/songwriter has more than 160m streams across all DSPs
News Universal and music streaming service Boomplay expand license to cover 47 countries across Africa New markets include South Africa, Ethiopia, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon and Senegal
Analysis News Hipgnosis reveals how it values songs (and that its catalog is worth slightly more than it originally forecast) New disclosures show that Hipgnosis' assets were earning 0.4% more than company predicted they would when it acquired them
News Nearly 98% of 18-to-49-year-olds in the US didn’t tune in to the Grammys on Sunday Nielsen figures reveal that 2021's pared-down show drew a TV audience of less than 9m
News Joe Conyers III exits role as Chief Strategy Officer at Downtown to lead new NFT Platform from Crypto.com Exec joins Hong Kong-based company as EVP, Global Head of NFT