News MBW’s Weekly Roundup: Spotify, Big Hit, Chance The Rapper, Splice, TuneCore The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Tony Wadsworth CBE named as new Chair of music charity The BRIT Trust Wadsworth, a former Chairman and CEO of EMI Music UK and Chair of the BPI, has been a BRIT Trustee for 16 years
News Dan Waite upped to President Of Better Noise as company expands global footprint, ventures further into film Waite set to oversee all music and film releases across company’s global offices
News Apple Music launches ‘Behind the Songs’ portal to highlight songwriters and producers New space will allow songwriters and publishers to participate in regularly updated editorial features and promotions
News Songtradr hires Mike Tunnicliffe and Joe Belliotti to lead Brand Solutions Division of new B2B music platform The execs will head up the brand solutions side of ‘Vinyl by Songtradr’
Analysis Live Nation just sold 170,000 tickets for 2021 UK summer festivals… within three days Astonishing level of ticket sales confirmed by Michael Rapino following British government announcing roadmap to re-opening
News ‘Winning a BRIT and going to No.1 first time is not the reality of how the music industry works.’ Check out an exclusive extract from Sound Advice — a new health-focused career guide for musicians and those that work with them
News Rachel Menzies joins BMG as Senior Director of Original Repertoire Services Experienced music supervisor goes in-house at BMG
News ADA Asia bolsters team with three senior executive hires Tan Wei Keng named Director, Business Operations, Jin Hwang named Head of Korea and Chiou Rei Min appointed Head of Greater Chin
News Spotify just secured $1.3bn in debt. What could it spend it on? Notes would fully mature on (as in, be repayable by) March 15, 2026
News Sony Music Publishing and country star Kane Brown sign worldwide deal, launch Verse 2 Music joint venture Music industry veteran Kent Earls will be heading up JV's operations
News Big Hit invests $3.6m in Supertone, an AI firm that just cloned a dead superstar’s voice Startup claims to be able to create "a hyper-realistic and expressive voice that [is not] distinguishable from real humans"
News IFPI launches ‘transformative’ shared system for performance rights revenue distribution in Asia IFPI and licensing companies in India, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand launch shared rights distribution system
News TuneCore expands into Africa with new hires in Nigeria and South Africa Jade Leaf hired as Head of TuneCore, Southern Africa and East Africa and Chioma Onuchukwu named Head of TuneCore for West Africa and East Africa
Analysis Over 60,000 tracks are now uploaded to Spotify every day. That’s nearly one per second. The numbers behind some major announcements from Spotify unveiled this week