News Jess Kinn joins One Fiinix live agency set up by Ed Sheeran agent Jon Ollier Kinn joins from LIVENow and was also previously an agent at Paradigm Agency
News MBW’s Weekly Roundup: AWAL, Universal x Triller, Spotify, Sony, Neil Jacobson The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Triller: We don’t need Universal Music Group to run our business Triller denies withholding artist payments from Universal. Universal says Triller's claims are "removed from reality"
News Hipgnosis raises another $100m… led by Morgan Stanley money Merck Mercuriadis delivers defiant message for his doubters in latest message to markets
News BMG restructures US repertoire operation as part of growth plan ‘to accelerate out of the pandemic’ Plan sees Thomas Scherer promoted to President, Repertoire & Marketing, Los Angeles and New York
News Warner Music Turkey signs pop star Edis Görgülü as part of partnership with Doğan Music Warner Music Turkey and Doğan Music announced their joint venture early 2020
News Universal Music Group pulls catalog from Triller, says TikTok rival has ‘shamefully withheld payments’ to artists World's biggest rights-holder takes down huge catalog from video platform
Analysis How did Warner Music Group perform in the pandemic year of 2020? In short: Streaming and publishing up, recorded music slightly down; overall, WMG was flat vs. calendar 2019
News Liz Lewis named SVP, Catalogue Development at Sony/ATV Lewis joins Sony/ATV following a 20-year-long career at Warner Records
News Warner Records inks pact with Gee Roberson and Jean Nelson’s BPG Music Partnership has already brought artists Erica Banks and David Sabastian to Warner
News Joseph ‘JP’ Patterson named Editor-In-Chief of Complex UK New York-based Complex Networks launched in the UK in 2014 under Manchester-based agency, w00t! Media
News Round Hill acquires catalog of Massive Attack members Robert Del Naja and Grant Marshall Deal compromises first five albums released between 1991 and 2010
News Sonia Grant-Yendell appointed Vice President, Human Resources, UK and International at Sony/ATV She was most recently Head of HR at intu Properties plc
News Riptide teams with Repost by SoundCloud to offer marketing support for artists on new label Riptide label launched in 2020
News Mike Watson promoted to CFO at Warner Music UK He takes on the role following the departure of Peter Breeden, who left the business last month
News Darcus Beese exits Island Records to ‘pursue new career opportunities’ Universal confirms British exec is returning to the UK
News SoundCloud steps into gaming with Player One, a livestreamed Fortnite tournament on Twitch SoundCloud Player One event will include a halftime performance from Rico Nasty
Analysis News YouTube generated nearly $20bn from ads last year – more than $54m per day Annual figure was up by over $4.6bn year-on-year