Music Business News: North America

Rich Christina’s role at Warner Chappell expanded to Senior Vice President, A&R and Venture Partners

Christina’s oversight will include recently announced venture with Tim & Danny Music (Sam Smith)

Spotify rival Anghami gets approval to list on NASDAQ

Anghami has more than 75 million registered users

Spotify added 3m new creators to its platform last year… and 4 other things we learned from the firm’s Q4 earnings call.

The Spotify founder gave some revelatory comments on Spotify's earnings call – especially around the creator economy

Steve Oberman named Executive Vice President and Head of Music at See Tickets North America

Steve Oberman promoted to Executive Vice President and Head of Music

Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak’s Silk Sonic join Fortnite in partnership with Atlantic Records

The launch includes in-game outfits for players, an in-game radio station, and a player tournament

Stem, which has paid out $180m in royalties as of 2021, bolsters Artist & Label Strategy Team

Seth Faber promoted to VP of Artist & Label Strategy; Vivian Yohannes joins as Director of Artist & Label Strategy, Hip Hop and R&B

The gamification of the music industry has just begun.

'The worlds of music, video games, AV and the blockchain are becoming irreversibly entwined,' suggests Ran Geffen

Music piracy has plummeted in the past 5 years. But in 2021, it slowly started growing again.

New stats from MUSO offer food for thought for the global music business