Music Business News: North America

With over $5m investment to date, Visionary Media Group wants to create ‘revolutionary experiences for top-tier artists’

Visionary Media Group's founding managing partners are Ronald Zamber and Nick Sciorra

Songtradr enters wellness space, partners with music for wellbeing label Myndstream

Songtradr has partnered with the mindfulness music label for sync services across the platform

With $7.5m in funding to date, ‘social metaverse’ platform Stageverse launches with virtual Muse concert

Stageverse was founded in 2017 by Tim Ricker and Claire Seidler

From Universal’s new board to Warner’s David Bowie partnership: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up

The biggest stories of the past five days – and why they matter

Martin Bandier, SESAC’s John Josephson, and Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures join $5m funding round for blockchain streaming service Audius

The Chainsmokers, Nas, Jason Derulo and Pusha T also invest in platform

Would AWAL really have thrived had it not been sold to Sony Music?

MBW crunches the numbers on AWAL, and asks if the UK competition watchdog is looking in the right direction

Lyrics firm Genius acquired for $80m by MediaLab

Genius is a lyrics database, editorial publisher, and digital media company founded in August 2009.

David Bowie’s entire catalog is coming to Warner Music from 2023

Bowie estate strikes deal to license entirety of icon's recordings to Warner across the globe