Music Business News: Europe

TikTok’s SoundOn is signing artists… and battling labels on the charts.

MBW Reacts is a series of analytical commentaries from Music Business Worldwide written in response to major recent entertainment events or news stories...

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Spotify cruises past quarter-of-a-billion subscribers, as it eyes $1.5bn annual operating profit in 2024

Spotify’s global Premium Subscriber base grew to 252m paying users in Q3

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Blackstone’s Hipgnosis closes $1.47bn asset-backed securities transaction

ABS deal is backed by royalties from the 45,000-song portfolio acquired in July from Hipgnosis Songs Fund‘s then-public shareholders

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Darina Connolly appointed General Manager of Warner Music’s Rhino UK

Connolly was most recently Head of Music Partnerships at TikTok

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From Ed Sheeran’s speech to UMG vs. TuneCore… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…

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Indie distributor Redeye strikes partnerships with UK’s Lasgo, Netherlands’ Bertus

Redeye says the alliances will broaden its partners’ sales and marketing reach across Europe

Analysis

‘We put a lot of time and pressure on ourselves to make our social media the best it can be, but at the end of the day, it’s a vanity project.’

The following is an extract from Sound Advice, a health-focused career guide for artists written by MBW Contributing Editor Rhian Jones and performance health and psychology coach Lucy Heyman

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Jon Platt accepts International Executive of the Year honor, pays tribute to Sony Music Publishing, the songwriting community and more at MBW’s Music Business UK Awards

Yesterday evening (November 5) saw MBW's Music Business UK Awards take place in Covent Garden, celebrating the very best that the UK music biz has to offer.