News Primary Wave buys Whitney Houston hits as part of deal with songwriters Shannon Rubicam and George Merrill Deal follows Primary Wave's $2 billion deal with financial giant Brookfield last month
Analysis News Over 1,000 songs with human-mimicking AI vocals have been released by Tencent Music in China. One of them has 100m streams. TME's Cussion Pang confirms firm has made a lot of progress with its Lingyin Engine
Analysis News TikTok, Meta, Russia, and 37% growth: 5 things we learned from Believe’s Q3 earnings call Denis Ladegaillerie and Xavier Dumont tackle analyst questions, hinting at future trends in the business
Analysis Blog Games have raced ahead to build Web3, but it’s not too late for music The following MBW op/ed comes from Bruno Guez, CEO of Digital rights administration company Revelator
News The A&R Awards 2022: All The Winners A big night for the UK music industry, as an array of companies and individuals pick up awards
Analysis News YouTube Music and Premium surpass 80m paid subscribers That subscriber figure marks a 30 million increase on the last subscriber figure
News Maria Garrido named Chief Marketing Officer Officer at Deezer Exec to be based in Paris, reporting directly to CEO Jeronimo Folgueira
Analysis News Labels asking TikTok for share of ad revenue in new deal talks (report) Bloomberg reports that the three majors are asking TikTok for a share of ad revenues in talks for new deals
News Voly Music completes stellar line-up of category sponsors at A&R Awards Finance management company supports Major Label of the Year battle
Analysis News Resso code hints at ‘TikTok Music’ global rollout preparation (report) Code discovered within TikTok’s sister app Resso hints at further details about ByteDance's music app plans
Analysis News From Live Nation’s 44m concertgoers in Q3 to Sony’s $2.15bn revenues… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up Our biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip
News Hipgnosis sponsors big two song-centric categories at A&R Awards Long-term event supporter doubles down on A&R Awards sponsorship
Interviews ‘The idea of a manager-artist relationship is a bit outdated, we’re simply partners in running a business.’ Seven 7 Management founder Matt Vines on the rise and rise of Louis Tomlinson, touring in the time of Covid, plus the changing role and evolving challenges of managing artists…
News Warner, Sony, Universal, BMG, Kobalt and more sign joint letter calling for end to use of rap lyrics as evidence Signatories urge legislators across America to limit how creative expression can be used against defendants on trial
Analysis News Amazon expands Prime member music access to catalog of 100m songs Catalog access increases from 2m to 100m songs for Prime members