Music Business News: United States News Concord Label Group hires former UMG execs Brad Clark and Kristen Reed to its data analysis teamsThis is the second round of senior hires at Concord Label Group just this week News John Lennon’s ‘Mind Games’ gets meditative remixes through Lumenate partnershipLumenate aims to make psychedelic therapy accessible to everyone through a smartphone app News Sir Lucian Grainge confirms ‘greater compensation’ is coming from TikTok for UMG artists and songwritersMBW obtains memo from Sir Lucian Grainge to his employees, detailing new agreement with TikTok Analysis News Universal Music and TikTok strike new licensing deal – including ‘improved remuneration’ for UMG artists and songwritersThe announcement brings to an end a long-running licensing dispute between the two companies. News Artists have earned $123m via Bandcamp Fridays since 2020 and fans have paid artists and their labels $1.3bn via the platform to dateThe direct to fan platform celebrates its 40th Bandcamp Friday on May 3 News The NMPA’s TikTok deal has officially ended. What does that mean for independent publishers in the US?“Music is essential to TikTok. As we have said, we are not engaging in an extension of our deal," said NMPA President & CEO David Israelite Interviews ‘The TikTok era is over. Artists aren’t being signed based on one thing going viral anymore.’MBW's Inspiring Women series meets Michele Harrison, founder of management company, MPH Collective News Primary Wave partners with Endel to create sleep and focus soundscapes from artistsEndel boasts partnerships with the likes of Universal Music Group, Spinnin' Records, AWAL and Future Classic1 2 … 1,000 Next
News Concord Label Group hires former UMG execs Brad Clark and Kristen Reed to its data analysis teamsThis is the second round of senior hires at Concord Label Group just this week
News John Lennon’s ‘Mind Games’ gets meditative remixes through Lumenate partnershipLumenate aims to make psychedelic therapy accessible to everyone through a smartphone app
News Sir Lucian Grainge confirms ‘greater compensation’ is coming from TikTok for UMG artists and songwritersMBW obtains memo from Sir Lucian Grainge to his employees, detailing new agreement with TikTok
Analysis News Universal Music and TikTok strike new licensing deal – including ‘improved remuneration’ for UMG artists and songwritersThe announcement brings to an end a long-running licensing dispute between the two companies.
News Artists have earned $123m via Bandcamp Fridays since 2020 and fans have paid artists and their labels $1.3bn via the platform to dateThe direct to fan platform celebrates its 40th Bandcamp Friday on May 3
News The NMPA’s TikTok deal has officially ended. What does that mean for independent publishers in the US?“Music is essential to TikTok. As we have said, we are not engaging in an extension of our deal," said NMPA President & CEO David Israelite
Interviews ‘The TikTok era is over. Artists aren’t being signed based on one thing going viral anymore.’MBW's Inspiring Women series meets Michele Harrison, founder of management company, MPH Collective
News Primary Wave partners with Endel to create sleep and focus soundscapes from artistsEndel boasts partnerships with the likes of Universal Music Group, Spinnin' Records, AWAL and Future Classic