Music Business News: North America

TikTok owner ByteDance has spent over $13m on US lobbying since 2019 (report)

Figure was revealed by Washington DC-based nonprofit organization OpenSecrets

‘Until there is a Black British superstar that everyone in the building gets behind, in the same way that they’ve done with Ed Sheeran, Adele and Dua Lipa, then there is no change.’

Adrian Sykes talks to David Miller about his career, how and why he now lives and works in the States, and the problems with the UK industry…

Bids fall short for Warner Bros. Discovery music assets as sale process stalls (report)

Company is reportedly 'scaling back' its plans

Reservoir Media has spent over $695m on catalogs to date (and 5 other things we learned about the company from its new Investor Factsheet)

MBW fillets a new investor factsheet published by the publicly-traded firm

Seymour Stein, legendary co-founder of Sire Records who signed Madonna, The Ramones and Talking Heads, dies at 80

Sire was co-founded in 1966 with music producer Richard Gottehrer

From Warner’s lay-offs to Believe’s big buy… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories on MBW from the past seven days

Web3 and Me

Scott Cohen, CEO of JKBX and co-founder of The Orchard, on the future of the internet

Splice appoints David Ericksen as SVP of Product and Kevin Stewart as SVP of Engineering

Both executives will report to Splice CEO, Kakul Srivastava