News Premier League football club Wolverhampton Wanderers teams with Warner’s ADA to launch record label in the UK Legendary music manager Peter Rudge has joined the label as a strategic consultant
News FUGA rolls out spatial audio support and automated delivery to Apple Music FUGA is a Preferred Plus partner on Apple Music
News The A&R Awards 2021: The finalists revealed! Full list of finalists revealed ahead of sold-out November 9 event in London
News Martin Bandier, SESAC’s John Josephson, and Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures join $5m funding round for blockchain streaming service Audius The Chainsmokers, Nas, Jason Derulo and Pusha T also invest in platform
Analysis Would AWAL really have thrived had it not been sold to Sony Music? MBW crunches the numbers on AWAL, and asks if the UK competition watchdog is looking in the right direction
News Warner Music South Africa acquires local independent label Coleske Coleske is the largest independent label focusing on Afrikaans repertoire
Interviews ‘TikTok is running everything.’ Frank Harris on how Jason Derulo reinvented himself on TikTok - and the keys to building a billion dollar brand
News Spotify Rival Anghami partners with Amazon to give Prime members in Saudi Arabia and UAE 6 months Anghami Plus for free Prime members in Saudi Arabia and the UAE will receive a free six-month subscription to Anghami Plus
News US recorded music revenues grew $1.5bn in H1 2021 compared to the first half of last year Streaming accounted for 84% of total revenues for the period
News Tim Dadson promoted to General Counsel at SoundExchange, Brieanne Jackson upped to Deputy General Counsel Colin Rushing stepping down as Chief Legal Officer
Analysis News Drake’s Certified Lover Boy, Spotify, and the destruction of the all-dominant streaming superstar What the performance of Drizzy's new studio record tells us about a growing trend in the music business
News Wasserman expands into Germany, hires Kai Burkhard and Sebastian Birwe as Senior Vice Presidents, DACH New office will be located in Düsseldorf
News Dell Furano, co-founder of Epic Rights, dies aged 71 Furano was a legendary music industry, concert merchandising, and brand management executive
News Sony Music’s AWAL buyout raises competition concerns in the UK, says watchdog Deal could lead to worse terms for artists and less innovation in the music sector, says UK regulator
News Kanye West hits 775m streams in Donda’s first week… as Drake smashes his own Spotify record A look at the streaming numbers from two blockbuster albums released last week