News Wyclef Jean’s Carnival World Music Group raises $25m Company is focused on creative talent in Africa and other emerging markets
News Victory for composers as Discovery Networks U-turns on rights buyout plan Company was planning to start asking composers to agree to “direct source licenses”
Analysis News SoundExchange paid out $908m to artists and labels in 2019 MBW's estimates SoundExchange's lifetime payouts to members have now reached approximately $7bn
News Willard Ahdritz becomes Kobalt Chairman, as Laurent Hubert succeeds him as CEO Ex-BMG exec Hubert joined Kobalt in 2016
News Universal’s legal chief Jeff Harleston awarded 2020 Entertainment Law Initiative Service Award "Change is hard. It can be abrupt, it can be unexpected, it can be painful but it’s important and it has to happen."
News Sir Lucian Grainge: Universal is transforming into the ‘most innovative audio-visual company in the entertainment world’ Billie Eilish and others play annual Universal Los Angeles event in Grammy week
News BMG responds to artist streaming revolt in Germany: ‘It is time for record companies to change.’ Letter appears to seek a 'user-centric' style of payment, while "attacking" record companies
News The artist revolt: Stars seek more streaming money from major labels in Germany Acts including Helene Fischer and Rammstein want a bigger share of the pie
News CTS EVENTIM acquires majority stakes in Switzerland’s Gadget Entertainment and wepromote Deals see company grow its live events portfolio by over 400 concerts per year
News Hipgnosis buys music catalog from Cher’s Believe co-writer Brian Higgins Believe reached No.1 in 21 countries
News Sony strengthens operations in Asia and Middle East, as Shridhar Subramaniam takes new President role Major makes moves in India, China, Korea and beyond
News Ditto to launch ‘Bluebox’ blockchain suite of tools and applications backed by $1m seed capital New blockchain-backed suite of tools and applications for musicians to launch in May 2020
News AWAL signs worldwide recordings deal with mxmtoon Artist's music has been streamed more than 300m times
News TikTok opens massive LA HQ, and is reportedly recruiting for a US CEO Office covers five floors and 120,000-square feet
Analysis News The Grammys fallout gets more shocking every day – but how relevant is the show to the modern record business? MBW research suggests the famed 'Grammy bump' is weakening
News Spotify is testing a Stories feature for influencer playlists YouTube star Summer Mckeen is the first influencer to test the feature
News UK charity Nordoff Robbins & Sony Music UK launch music therapy bursary program Sony Music’s commitment will cover six bursaries across the UK over an initial three-year period