Analysis News The MLC has distributed $1 billion to songwriters to date Organization directly distributed more than $532.3 million in royalties to its members in 2022
Analysis News NetEase Cloud Music now counts over 611,000 registered independent artists NCM had 38.3 million monthly paying users at the end of 2022
News Joel Zimmerman joins Range Media as partner in music division Zimmerman spent 13 years of his career at WME
News Deezer strikes long-term partnership with speaker maker Sonos to power Sonos Radio globally Sonos launched its ad-supported radio streaming service in 2020
Interviews ‘APAC isn’t a region to apply a one size fits all strategy.’ MBW’s World Leaders series interviews Nina Rabe-Cairns, Managing Director, APAC for Ingrooves Music Group
News Amazon Music strikes playlist partnership with generative AI music company Endel Endel raised $15m in a series B funding round last year
News SoundCloud expands artist services business globally; enters JV with Jax Jones’ and Dan Stacey’s record label WUGD (What You Gonna Do) SoundCloud says it's teamed up with UK-based WUGD 'to discover, nurture, and invest in emerging electronic music artists featured on the platform internationally'
News TikTok’s SoundOn distribution service is now powered by FUGA Distro service gets new distribution partner
News Iconoclast acquires Diplo’s Mad Decent Publishing catalog Founded by Olivier Chastan, Iconoclast entered the music rights acquisition space in February 2022
Interviews News Evan Bogart’s Seeker Music acquires Christopher Cross’ full catalog Seeker is led by CEO Evan Bogart, a chart-topping songwriter
News Harry Styles collaborator Tyler Johnson sells portion of catalog to Influence Media Partners Work on Harry Styles’ latest release, Harry’s House, is not included in this partnership
News After investing $125m over the past year, Cutting Edge secures another $100m to buy film and TV music rights The initial $125m round 'has been fully deployed' according to the company
Analysis Blog Where is the growth going to come from? Geoff Taylor, formerly CEO of the BPI, casts his eye over a slowdown in growth in mature markets – and ponders how it might be accelerated
News Music distributor Alliance Entertainment completes $480m SPAC merger Firm completes merger with blank check company, Adara Acquisition
News From HYBE’s two $300m+ deals to Robert Kyncl’s first earnings call as WMG CEO…. it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up Our biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip