Music Business News: United States

TuneCore and Believe partner with YouTube to provide music for TikTok rival Shorts

Deal follows Shorts' recent US launch

Big move for Sony Music, as Nas’s Mass Appeal label inks deal with The Orchard

Deal brings to an end Mass Appeal's three-year global distribution deal with Universal Music Group

SoundCloud’s Repost partners with Linda Perry, T-Pain’s Nappy Boy Entertainment and others to develop ‘promising independent artists’

Repost will create marketing and distribution plans to support breaking artists

‘In some ways, I think the label model as we know it is dead.’

How French company Throne Music plans to sign, innovate and partner its way to success in the States

Music NFT platform OneOf, co-founded in partnership with Quincy Jones, raises $63m in seed funding

Doja Cat, H.E.R., Quincy Jones, John Legend and others will release NFTs via the platform

SoundCloud launches weekly artist talk series on Clubhouse

Weekly artist event series starts on Clubhouse on May 26

TikTok music marketing agency Creed Media sells stake to Andrea Radrizzani’s Aser Ventures

Radrizzani is the Chairman and majority owner of British Premier League club Leeds United

Sony Music promotes Melissa Thomas to EVP, International Marketing for US Repertoire

Monica Cornia takes new SVP of sales role at Sony's Commercial Music Group