Music Business News: Sweden

Sweden’s Pophouse is investing in music rights, as it adds Airbnb and EQT execs to its board

Powell is currently the Global Head of Hosting at Airbnb, while Alexandra Lutz is partner at investment firm EQT

Tracklib strikes licensing deal with BANDAI NAMCO to bring anime music samples to producers

BANDAI NAMCO is also an operator of the music label Lantis

Spotify’s valuation is half the size it was a year ago. Could a Big Tech titan make a shock acquisition bid?

It couldn't really happen... could it?

Spotify added 3m new creators to its platform last year… and 4 other things we learned from the firm’s Q4 earnings call.

The Spotify founder gave some revelatory comments on Spotify's earnings call – especially around the creator economy

Petra Kauraisa named Executive Director of European Music Managers Alliance

German music managers association also joins EMMA

Daniel Ek responds to Neil Young’s Joe Rogan protest – but Spotify won’t delete controversial podcast episode

Open letter from Daniel Ek commits to launching new content advisories

HITCO-backed fan funding firm Corite raises $6.2m in private token sale ahead of blockchain platform launch

Firm is preparing to launch the first version of the CO Fan Power blockchain platform in Q1 2022

Universal inks licensing agreement with Nordic fitness service Mentra by SATS

Deal will allow Mentra fitness users to exercise to UMG’s catalog of recorded music across the Nordic region