Interviews ‘Our ambition is to sign acts with the best talent and break them on a global scale.’ Jamie Spinks, Head of A&R at Columbia in the UK, on how A&R is evolving, and more...
News Sony Music Masterworks acquires live music and events company Proactiv Entertainment Proactiv Managing Director Nicolas Renna will continue to lead the business
Interviews ‘The objective is not just to have a hit, it’s to make people feel less alone, more loved, more alive, more thankful.’ Josh Jenkins talks about co-writing two very different country mega-hits, the effect they have had on his career, gifts from God, TikTok and the importance of 'a slow, peaceful creative space'
News Tuned Global partners with Revelator to integrate NFTs into music streaming platforms Revelator will enable Tuned Global to offer its customers a white-label platform to mint, sell, distribute, report, and track music NFTs
Interviews ‘Technology is a fantastic thing but there’s nothing like human curation.’ MBW’s Inspiring Women series interviews Moon Projects founder Mary Rahmani
Analysis Blog TikTok isn’t where ‘stars get started’. Stars start themselves. Music Venue Trust CEO Mark Davyd on the claims made about artist development by digital platforms, and the reality
News European lawmakers close to launching ‘world’s first rules’ on artificial intelligence Under the draft mandate, AI systems with “an unacceptable level of risk to people’s safety” would be strictly banned
News Revenues at UK licensing org, PPL, hit record high in 2022, up 7.8% to £272.6m It was the highest level of revenue in the company’s 89-year history
Interviews Austin Daboh on music, tech, AI, and the future of artist marketing The Atlantic Records UK EVP joins the Music Business Worldwide podcast
News From Google’s AI music generator to Robert Kyncl on music streaming’s payout and pricing models… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place
Analysis Blog Why the power of AI may hold the key to distributing wealth throughout the music industry (Part 2) This MBW op/ed comes from Ran Geffen, founder of XR connect development agency OMR and CEO of Amusica Song Management in Israel.
News Google trained ‘experimental AI’ to generate high-fidelity songs from text prompts. Now it’s available to the public Model was trained on five million audio clips, amounting to 280,000 hours of music at 24 kHz
News Abbey Road Red tech startup XONE launches metaverse experience for British band easy life Easy life are signed to Universal Music Group's Island Records UK
News Warner Chappell Music UK signs rising producer, DJ and songwriter Nia Archives to global publishing deal Her track Forbidden Feelingz has racked up more than 19 million streams on Spotify
News Grammy-winning duo Stargate enter into creative joint venture with PULSE Music Group Stargate have produced or written for artists including Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, Rihanna, Selena Gomez and more