News Exactuals’ PaymentHub passes $1bn in all-time dollars processed PaymentHub has seen 250% year-over-year growth, reports Exactuals
News MBW’s Weekly Roundup: Universal, Sun Records, DistroKid, Spotify, Big Hit The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Sherrese Clarke Soares, CEO of $1bn-backed acquisition fund Tempo Music Investments, exits company "Despite the birthing of Tempo as a result of several years of hard work at Morgan Stanley, I made the decision to resign as CEO to start my own venture."
News Matt Phipps-Taylor joins peermusic as Chief Information Officer Hiring comes as peermusic’s current Chief Information Officer Jeff Witcher retires after 18 years with the company
News Annabelle Herd named Chief Executive Officer of Australia’s ARIA Herd joins ARIA and PPCA following a 16-year career at Network 10
News Alen Torosyan promoted to VP, Operations Emerging Markets, at Warner Music His remit involves coordinating Legal and Business Affairs, and Finance activities
News Universal Music Group IPO coming ‘early 2022 at the latest’; Tencent completes acquisition of further 10% in UMG Vivendi suggests Universal's IPO could take place this year
News Warner Music Group close to buying minority stake in Rotana Music (report) Talks 'could result in board approval as early as this week,' reports the Wall Street Journal
Interviews ‘Artists need to pay attention to their legacy and be very specific about it.’ "Lawyer-manager" John Branca on fighting for artists' rights, and the Michael Jackson story
News Sony/ATV signs new deal with songwriter Mark James, acquires rights for three of his songs Mark James has written songs including the Elvis Presley hits Suspicious Minds and Moody Blue
News DistroKid launches ‘matchmaking service’ to help labels find unsigned artists; Republic Records named first partner DistroKid has tapped music industry veteran Ché Pope to head new initiative
News Primary Wave buys legendary Sun Records in $30m deal, including masters for Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis Deal includes multiple Johnny Cash recordings including I Walk the Line and Folsom Prison Blues
News Downtown acquires digital marketing platform Found.ee Platform is used by more than 25,000 artists and labels worldwide
News David Woirhaye named EVP and Global CFO of Warner Chappell Music He originally joined Warner Music Group in 2005
News Want to play a small livestream concert in the UK? You’ll have to pay a licence fee for that. PRS for Music launches a new Online Live Concert licence for live-streamed gigs with revenues under £500
News Spotify’s latest invention monitors your speech, determines your emotional state… and suggests music based on it New patent reveals Spotify's ambitions to monitor users' speech
News Deviate Digital makes series of hires and promotions as part of UK expansion Stef Pascual appointed as the company's first Strategy Director
News Sam Selolwane and Keith Rothschild each named Head Of Promotion at RCA Records Both will individually report into COO John Fleckenstein