Music Business News: North America

Grammy-winning songwriter Jordan Reynolds sells catalog to Warner Chappell, launches brokerage to help other writers do the same thing

Reynolds has written six No.1 songs across three genres

‘Artists really have to see Web3 as more than just a glorified fan club for the 21st Century.’

RCRDSHP founder Obie Fernandez on the future of the NFT market and the potential impact that Web3 could have on the music industry...

Warner Music Group launches Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Institute

Institute to offer range of educational programming from third-party experts and an Innovation Lab for employees

From Sting selling his song catalog to the majors generating $20bn last year: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter

Kristina ‘Red’ Tanner promoted to Partner at Activist Artists Management

Chris Ruff has also joined the company as Head of Global Marketing

Reservoir has $3bn worth of deals in ‘pipeline’ and expects to spend $200m+ on M&A during first year as public firm

Reservoir Media has published the financial results for its fiscal Q3 2022 (calendar Q4 2021), ended December 31, 2021

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?

Nas and Lil Baby-backed metaverse firm Everyrealm closes $60m funding round led by Andreesen Horowitz

The firm is led by CEO Janine Yorio