Music Business News: North America

Sony Music Publishing enters partnership with Grammy-nominated songwriter Jason Evigan’s Chumba Music

Chumba Music has also hired Aaron Sander as Head of A&R

Richelle Parham named President of Global E-Commerce and Business Development at Universal Music Group

Exec joins UMG from WestRiver Group, where she served as Managing Director

Russ Tannen promoted to President at DICE as company expands presence in New York

Ticketing platform is adding over 20 roles across marketing, operations and artist partnerships

Sony Music Group’s $100m Global Social Justice Fund supports 90 new organizations

Towalame Austin says latest round of funding is "our most diverse and expansive yet"

DistroKid is now distributing over a million new tracks every month

DistroKid also says that it distributes '30-40%' of all new music in the world

Social app Clubhouse launches on Android

Beta version available to Android users in the US, other countries to follow

Lauren Wirtzer-Seawood joins SoundCloud as Chief Content and Marketing Officer

Most recently, Wirtzer-Seawood served as President of UnitedMasters

From Jay-Z selling TIDAL to Hipgnosis and Primary Wave’s catalog buys: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up

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