Music Business News: United States

Vanessa French joins SoundExchange as Vice President of Communications and Content Strategy

French will oversee SoundExchange’s communications team

BMG backs Credits Due campaign for songwriters launched by ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus

BMG is the first international music company to commit to the campaign.

Twitch strikes deal with music publishers

According to the NMPA, Twitch will provide "new opportunities" to music publishers

ABBA’s Agnetha Fältskog joins $6m funding round for AI-powered record label Snafu Records

The company also unveiled two new platform tools

Universal Music Group goes public: Sir Lucian Grainge hails ‘exciting milestone in UMG’s storied history’

Sir Lucian Grainge and members of UMG's corporate executive team sounded the gong live from UMG’s Santa Monica HQ

Saban Music Group strikes strategic partnership with Reggaeton star Don Omar

Don Omar has over 17.9 million monthly listeners on Spotify

Merck Mercuriadis: ‘None of us should be able to sleep in good conscience at night until the true value of the songwriters’ contributions to this business are recognized.’

Merck Mercuriadis responds to criticism of his views regarding the major record companies and publishers

With over $5m investment to date, Visionary Media Group wants to create ‘revolutionary experiences for top-tier artists’

Visionary Media Group's founding managing partners are Ronald Zamber and Nick Sciorra