Interviews ‘A&R is about giving a voice to artists that you believe are important.’ Omnian Music MD Jane Abernethy discusses working with artists and A&R and the challenges and developments she’s experienced in the independent music sector
News Spotify enables more artists & businesses to run audio ads as self-serve ‘Ad Studio’ moves out of beta and expands into 18 new markets 'Ad Studio marks the start of a new chapter.'
News The Hottest Independent Artists In The World: Adeline, Brye, Matilda Mann, Mnelia and Rozei Meet the latest group of indie artists handpicked from Instrumental's 'Hot' list
News Austin Daboh leaving Apple for senior role at Atlantic Records UK Former Spotify exec hired in EVP position at major record company
News London’s BST Hyde Park 2020 canceled due to Coronavirus 'It is with great sadness that we have made the difficult decision to cancel BST Hyde Park 2020.'
News PRS for Music pays out record $215m in April 2020 distribution PRS counts 145,500 songwriter, composer and music publisher members in the UK and worldwide
News Warner’s Arts Music division inks global deal with Fred Rogers Productions for hit children’s series Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood New music from the show will soon be released under the deal
News Post Malone countersues musician in dispute over credit for hit, Circles Tyler Armes is suing Post Malone to be credited as a co-writer and co-producer on the No.1 single
News MBW launches World’s Greatest Producers series, supported by Hipgnosis Songs Fund First in our new series will be an in-depth interview with Nile Rodgers himself
News Round Hill acquires catalog of Goo Goo Dolls frontman Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls have sold 12 million records worldwide
News Apple Music launches $50m advance fund for independent labels hit by COVID-19 impact And MBW's sources suggest that Apple's global subscriber numbers continued to grow month-on-month in March
News Sales of music and merch through artist website hosting provider Bandzoogle surpass $60m Platform powers over 45,000 websites
News Music streaming subscriptions forecast to top 450m by the end of 2020 (report) Subscriptions reached 358m by the end of 2019, according to Counterpoint Research
News Pro Music Rights formally recognized as performance rights organization by National Religious Broadcasters Music License Committee Florida-based royalty collection firm formally recognized by NRBMLC
News CNN acquires content personalization and discovery startup Canopy Acquisition to accelerate CNN's development of a new digital news & information platform
News Downtown-owned music distribution company Soundrop expands services to Russia and China New distribution partners include NetEase and Tencent Music
News Lawsuit over Universal Music warehouse fire dismissed by judge Litigation followed a New York Times article in which it was claimed that up to 500,000 master recordings were damaged in the fire
Interviews Why $12m-backed Stem dumped DIY distribution – and why its founder worries about the music industry ‘making aggressive bets and being wrong’ Milana Rabkin Lewis joins MBW's podcast to talk distribution, A&R and stream fraud