Music Business News: Canada News FUGA makes first step into D2C commerce for artists and labels, in partnership with Shopify-backed Single This is B2B music distributor FUGA's first foray into direct-to-consumer e-commerce News Audiomack and Beatdapp team up to address streaming fraud Beatdapp will help Audiomack identify artificial activity, compromised user accounts and bots Analysis News From Create buying Monstercat to WMG earnings… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place… News Create Music Group acquires again, swooping for indie electronic label Monstercat Create plans to invest additional $50m over the next two years in artist development, artist advances, and platform support across Monstercat’s roster Interviews ‘Sometimes I feel like I’m on fire in a room and sometimes I feel like I’m completely dead.’ Tobias Jesso Jr on how he nearly blew it with Adele on day one, feeling 'disenfranchised' by the modern music industry, and when/why he might just pack it all in and make way forAI... News Music Glue opens Vancouver office headed by Tom Maguire, amid ‘increase in demand’ for D2C services The office will be headed up by Music Glue’s Chief Product Manager, Tom Maguire News Amanda Kingsland, Shawn Marino named co-heads of A&R at Universal Music Canada The duo have “a renewed mandate to sign, develop, and break the next generation of Canadian artists on the world stage” Analysis News Global recorded music revenues hit $29.6bn in 2024, up 4.8% YoY; users of paid music subscriptions reach 752m Mexico has overtaken Australia to become the World's tenth-largest recorded music market.1 2 … 39 Next
News FUGA makes first step into D2C commerce for artists and labels, in partnership with Shopify-backed Single This is B2B music distributor FUGA's first foray into direct-to-consumer e-commerce
News Audiomack and Beatdapp team up to address streaming fraud Beatdapp will help Audiomack identify artificial activity, compromised user accounts and bots
Analysis News From Create buying Monstercat to WMG earnings… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
News Create Music Group acquires again, swooping for indie electronic label Monstercat Create plans to invest additional $50m over the next two years in artist development, artist advances, and platform support across Monstercat’s roster
Interviews ‘Sometimes I feel like I’m on fire in a room and sometimes I feel like I’m completely dead.’ Tobias Jesso Jr on how he nearly blew it with Adele on day one, feeling 'disenfranchised' by the modern music industry, and when/why he might just pack it all in and make way forAI...
News Music Glue opens Vancouver office headed by Tom Maguire, amid ‘increase in demand’ for D2C services The office will be headed up by Music Glue’s Chief Product Manager, Tom Maguire
News Amanda Kingsland, Shawn Marino named co-heads of A&R at Universal Music Canada The duo have “a renewed mandate to sign, develop, and break the next generation of Canadian artists on the world stage”
Analysis News Global recorded music revenues hit $29.6bn in 2024, up 4.8% YoY; users of paid music subscriptions reach 752m Mexico has overtaken Australia to become the World's tenth-largest recorded music market.