Analysis Blog India is home to the largest number of YouTube viewers in the world. But the platform’s music chart isn’t without flaws. Amit Gurbaxani investigates why a lyric video with more than 400m views hasn’t charted on YouTube's charts for India
Analysis News Repost is the cornerstone of SoundCloud’s artist services business. Repost’s founder just left SoundCloud. SoundCloud acquired Repost in May 2019 for around $15 million
Analysis News Half of APAC listeners use social media for music discovery, a win for TikTok and its music-streaming foray APAC music discovery stats revealed in new report from US market monitor Luminate
News Six months after selling to Epic Games, Bandcamp is bringing back ‘Bandcamp Fridays’ Nearly 800,000 fans have participated in the Bandcamp Fridays program since March 2020
Analysis News Utopia is raising €300 million in a Series C round that would value its company at €2.5bn. But what’s it building? A deep dive into one of the most intriguing companies operating around and within the modern music business
Analysis News BLACKPINK’s virtual concert on PUBG MOBILE was watched by 15.7m viewers Video marked the first time BLACKPINK have appeared in avatar form for a music video
News Katie Robinson and Adam Ruehmer promoted within Elektra Entertainment marketing department Based in Los Angeles, Robinson and Ruehmer will both report to Elektra Co-Presidents Mike Easterlin and Gregg Nadel.
News Music startup Soundstripe attracts $9m in fresh funding shortly after launching mobile app Startup provides royalty-free music for video
Analysis News Triller, which has raised $300m to date, is being sued by Sony Music for non-payment of ‘millions of dollars’ Triller just raised more funds, pushed back its IPO (again)... and has been hit by a major lawsuit by SME
News Jason Johnson promoted to Senior Vice President of Marketing and Brand Strategy at Audiomack Johnson first joined Audiomack in 2018 as a Senior Marketing Consultant
News Kobalt Music Group in talks to sell majority stake to Francisco Partners, say MBW sources Francisco Partners acquired a majority stake in Native Instruments earlier this year
News iHeartMedia’s latest metaverse move is the launch of ‘iHeartLand’ in Fortnite, and a virtual Charlie Puth concert Media giant to launch 'iHeartLand' inside Epic Games' hit video game
Interviews ‘A notification done correctly is one of the most powerful tools within mobile phones.’ MBW's Trailblazers series interviews Jake Zinn, founder of US-based music release notification app Beepr
News Capitol drops ‘robot rapper’ FN Meka, as project is accused of being an ‘insult to the Black community’ Capitol has 'severed ties' with the virtual artist and offered 'our deepest apologies to the Black community'
Interviews ‘I don’t manage conventionally – I manage spiritually…’ David Benveniste, manager of bands including System Of A Down, Korn, Deftones and more, joins MBW's World's Greatest Managers interview series