News YouTube Shorts to split share of ad revenue between music rightsholders and creators from February 1 Shorts' revenue-sharing model replaces the YouTube Shorts Fund
Interviews ‘Being a publisher in 2023 is so different to what it was previously — you can’t just sit there and hope the song’s value will be appreciated, you’ve got to do the work.’ MBW's Inspiring Women series interviews Warner Chappell Music COO and Co-Chair Carianne Marshall
Analysis News The story of Trefuego’s TikTok hit 90mh – and Sony’s bid to scrub it from the internet It was a TikTok viral hit with hundreds of millions of streams – before Sony issued a copyright takedown. But five months on, it won't go away.
News Mary Ashley Johnson upped to EVP, Sales and Artist & Label Management, North America at The Orchard; Katie Studley named VP, Nashville Both will report to Colleen Theis, The Orchard’s Chief Operating Officer
News Sony Music settles trademark lawsuit over Future’s ‘High Off Life’ album Complaint was originally filed in 2020
Analysis News 5 numbers that will come to define the music business in 2023 MBW picks out a handful of statistics underpinning some of the red-hot issues bubbling away as we type...
Interviews Key Songs in the Life Of… Stuart Camp Ed Sheeran's manager picks the five songs that have meant the most to him in his life and career to date
News The Weeknd’s ‘Blinding Lights’ overtakes Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape of You’ to become Spotify’s most-streamed track of all time There's a new No. 1 in Spotify's all-time-most-streamed rankings
Interviews ‘I’ve made lots of money doing something I love, but there’s such a lack of respect.’ Holly Knight looks back on a life of hooks and hits, including The Best by Tina Turner, and takes aim at the industry's treatment of songwriters
News Peter Leathem, YolanDa Brown, Geoff Taylor and Robin Millar named in UK New Year’s Honours List It's the first New Year's honours list to ever be issued by King Charles III.
News Nearly $50m has now been withdrawn by artists and participants using Sony Music’s Cash Out and Real Time Advances features Sony publishes 2022 recap for Artists Forward
News After hosting a virtual Blackpink concert that attracted 15.7m viewers, PUBG MOBILE is launching its own label PUBG already produces its own original music via a virtual band called POWER 4
News Duetti, a startup led by Tidal’s former COO, plans to buy and monetize independent artists’ rights – report Startup raised $7m in a seed funding round in July
Interviews ‘There is talent everywhere. But we have to make the effort to break that talent.’ Alfonso Perez-Soto, President, Emerging Markets at Warner Recorded Music
News Warner Music Group makes investment in virtual fashion platform DRESSX 'DRESSX is exactly the type of partner we need sprinting alongside us as we build for the future,' said