News Maria Weaver named President of WEA, Warner Recorded Music’s global artist and label services network Weaver was most recently Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer at Comcast Advertising
News Music-related user generated content could be worth $6bn over the next two years (report) New report examines 'the rising power of UGC'
News Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams generated over 36m global streams in the last two weeks following viral TikTok video, confirms Warner Music Group Classic track exploded after a video from TikTok star Nathan Apodaca went viral
News African music streaming company MePlaylist inks distribution deals with FUGA & Symphonic Deals add some 7m songs to platform's catalog
News Mathew Knowles, father of Beyoncé and Solange, joins African music streaming startup MePlaylist as President, Global Marketing and Communications Appointment follows his investment in the startup earlier this year
News Amazon Music launches new Latin music brand including emerging artist program, merch, podcasts & playlists New global brand launches under the tagline of La Música Que Nos Conecta
News Apple launches two new live global radio stations, Hits and Country, rebrands Beats 1 as Apple Music 1 Apple Music Radio features live and exclusive original shows
News Good Soldier Records says UK airplay No.1 shows it can compete with majors ‘at the top level’ Christian Tattersfield tells MBW his company is targeting half a billion streams for Dancing In The Moonlight
News PlayStation 4 game Dreams used to create music video for Noah Cyrus Project is the third in the 'Sony Collaboration Series'
News Sony PlayStation joins hundreds of companies in Facebook advertising boycott until end of July Music companies Anjunabeats, Cooking Vinyl and Epitaph are also participating
News Fortnite hits $1bn in mobile revenue in just two years Game has generated over 129m downloads on the App Store and Google Play to date
Interviews News ‘Since 2018, there’s been three crazy deals in the record business. I did two of them…’ Tha Lights Global CEO, Dooney Battle, on staying independent with Lil Pump – and shunning big checks
News Victory Records founder Tony Brummel launches new company, Mission Two Entertainment Rock label Victory Records was acquired by Concord in 2019
News Fanbytes launches ByteLabs to help ‘TikTok play a longer-term role’ for labels and artists Bytelabs claims to have seen an increase in artist TikTok follower counts by 250% across four weeks
News Streaming and playlisting expert Kieron Donoghue signs up as MBW’s new columnist Warner's former global boss of playlisting will join the likes of Cherie Hu and Peter Robinson on our pages