News From UMG’s $1m an hour, to Paul McCartney’s music streaming crusade: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Viagogo loses court appeal against $4.5m fine in Italy Court ejects viagogo’s "passive hosting provider" argument, rules no exemption from liability
News Nikki Cox and Storme Whitby-Grubb join Red Bull Records leadership team Nikki Cox appointed Chief Marketing Officer, Storme Whitby-Grubb named Chief Creative Officer
News Scooter Braun and Troy Carter backed livestream startup Moment House names seven new key hires Execs join from Spotify, Apple Music and AEG Presents
News Universal Music Group generated over $1m per hour in Q1… and expects to go public in the fall Another strong quarter for Sir Lucian Grainge and co, as Q1 streaming revenue leaps up 20% year-on-year
News Wasserman Music launches with ‘plans to expand assertively as live entertainment business rebounds’ Wasserman completes acquisition of Paradigm Talent Agency’s North American live music representation business
News SoundCloud to launch The Lookout hip-hop show exclusively on SiriusXM Show originates from popular hip-hop discovery playlist, which has spotlighted stars like Megan Thee Stallion and Roddy Ricch
Interviews ‘Good artist management is saying no to most things – and yes to the right things.’ Here, Rob Swerdlow explains the evolution of Starwood over the past three decades – and where the company plans to go with its multi-award-winning roster in 2021 and beyond…
News Sony Music applauds Apple’s new podcast subscription launch Premium Apple podcast subscriptions will be available in 170 countries in May
News Check out the latest issue of MBW’s Music Business UK right here Read the Preview edition of our latest magazine all about the British market
Analysis Netflix is going ‘wobbly’ without fresh hits. The music industry is learning to live with the same thing. Netflix is relying on classic movies, rather than new ones. Meanwhile, the music industry is saying: "Hasta la vista, ARPU."
News PortalDisc App is a new a ‘hyper-localized and hyper-targeted’ music streaming service in Chile Platform offers 130,000 Chilean songs from 300 national labels and more than 7,000 independent artists,
News Anderson .Paak signs global publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music Deal signed in partnership with Dr. Dre’s Hard Workin’ Black Folks
News Deezer signs strategic partnership with Brazilian Netflix rival Globoplay Globoplay’s users can subscribe to Deezer Premium for free for 12 months
News Songtradr acquires Pretzel, which provides DMCA-proof music for Twitch and YouTube livestreamers It's Songtradr's third acquisition in the past six months alone
News Why are Paul McCartney, Led Zeppelin, Sting, Chris Martin and Stevie Nicks demanding the UK government ‘fixes streaming’? Page and Plant reunited at last... in letter calling for 50% of 'lean back' streaming royalties to be paid direct to artists
News Universal Music Group launches Tuff Gong Collective joint venture with Cedella Marley Partnership encompasses new film and television projects, as well as recorded music from artists signed through the JV
News Primary Wave buys catalog of Madonna collaborator Patrick Leonard in ‘multi-million-dollar deal’ Deal includes publishing and recorded music catalogs, as well as his master royalties as a producer