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
News Napster majority owner RealNetworks to get $10m investment from CEO Rob Glaser 'I am making this investment because I believe the company has a very promising future ahead of it'
News Merlin inks licensing deal in Africa with Boomplay, which now has 62m users Partnership follows licensing deals with Sony, Warner and Universal
News Sony inks major licensing deal in Africa with Boomplay (and its 60m users) Chinese-owned app is currently adding around 2m users every month
News Audio Network appoints Cindy Chao VP, East Coast Exec's remit will include driving awareness of the Audio Network brand in the US