Music Business News: North America

Six reasons why regionality still matters for the global music streaming business

This MBW op/ed comes from Ryan Blakeley, a Ph.D. in Musicology candidate at the Eastman School of Music.

Is Universal Music Group going to post a $2bn EBITDA profit this year?

UMG announces another impressive set of quarterly results – this time as a public company

Spotify offloads two thirds of its stake in DistroKid for $167m

Spotify made a minority investment in DistroKid back in 2018

Timbaland mints his first collection of NFTs, from upcoming EP, Opera Noir

Timbaland has created a series of NFTs composed of stems, hooks and beats from his upcoming EP

Spotify subscriptions reached 172m in Q3, up by 7m on the previous quarter

Spotify has published its financial results for Q3 2021

Here’s exactly what Spotify, Apple and other streaming services want to pay songwriters from 2023 onwards.

MBW rifles through the filings of Big Tech to see what the likes of Google and Spotify are proposing

Sony Music Publishing strikes partnership with Punjabi/Hindi content specialist White Hill Music

SMP to provide global publishing services, including administration, sync, and catalog promotion

Primary Wave buys stake in Luther Vandross publishing and master recording income stream as part of $40m deal (report)

Vandross has sold over 40 million records worldwide