Music Business News: North America

Companies to introduce 'beat battle' and new series of sample packs and collections called 'Beyond Afrobeats'

Artists using the platform have achieved 500bn streams and 700m downloads

Mendlinger is based out of the company’s global headquarters in New York

Justin Blau tells MBW how Royal wants to be positioned in the music business, and gives us his predictions for the NFT space...

Bral will be responsible for managing songwriter relations and fostering creative collaboration on behalf of the company’s U.S. roster

SoundMint says that its NFTs are musical compositions derived from stems

Mojo acquires 50% interest in the publishing catalog of Bob Morrison, and the writer share, artist and record royalties of Jerry Reed

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