Music Business News: Netherlands

Confirmed: The 3 major music companies jointly generated over $20bn last year (that’s over $2m per hour)

MBW crunches the 2021 numbers, and discovers a banner year for music's biggest players

Downtown appoints VP International Legal & Business Affairs and Director of Legal and Business Affairs

Claire Jacobs named VP of International Legal & Business Affairs, Amber Charania upped to Director of Legal & Business Affairs

FUGA partners with Mascot Label Group

B2B distributor also begins delivery of immersive audio to TIDAL

Spinnin’ Records expands global presence with raft of new hires in the UK, US and China

Ranya Khoury, Jack Guppy, Tom Smart, Sivan Liu and Crystal Du join the company

Spotify for Artists platform made available in 16 additional languages

The platform is now available in Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, European French and more

Universal vs Spotify: Which of music’s two giants will be worth more at the end of 2021?

It's neck-and-neck right now, with Universal $7 billion ahead of Spotify following a damaging wave of headlines about stand-up comedians

CTM Outlander buys music rights from Grammy-winning songwriter Natalie Hemby

Catalog consists of 189 released songs

Warner Music launches Atlantic Records Benelux

Sander Stijnen and Ixia Verdooren will head up the new label