News Music marketplace BeatStars has paid out $200m to creators to date Payout update was revealed by founder Abe Batshon on Twitch on Wednesday (June 1)
News Music-for-retail company Vibenomics raises $12.3m in Series B Funding Round was led by Panoramic Ventures
Analysis Blog The Gamification of Everything The following op/ed comes from Dan Symons, founder of SPLIT / LIP, a Web3 and metaverse business consultancy for rights owners
Analysis News From Justin Timberlake’s catalog sale to Sony’s unrecouped balance program expansion: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
News Justin Timberlake sells song catalog to Hipgnosis and its $1bn-backed Blackstone fund Hipgnosis buys 100% of all of Timberlake’s copyright, ownership and financial interests of the Writer and Publisher’s Share of Public Performance income, and the catalog of musical compositions written by Justin Timberlake.
News Sony Music to expand unrecouped balance program to more artists and songwriters Sony Music is extending the program on a rolling basis
Interviews This AI expert just patented technology for Ingrooves that helps indie artists spend money smarter. SK Sharma, Ingrooves' Chief Analytics and AI Officer, on innovation in the music industry – and working with good people
News As Bad Bunny smashes Apple Music records, his manager Noah Assad says Latin Music will ‘keep growing’ Bad Bunny broke the record for the highest first-week streams worldwide for a Latin album in Apple Music history
News Is Elon Musk going to save the music industry? This MBW op/ed comes from Ran Geffen, founder of XR connect development agency OMR and CEO of Amusica Song Management in Israel
Interviews News Troy Carter’s Venice is launching an NFT-gated members’ club – offering artist services, studios, and more Troy Carter talks about the Venice Music Collective and shares his thoughts on the future of Web3 and NFTs in the music industry
Analysis Blog Music streaming has a ‘tsundoku’ problem London-based music industry journalist Eamonn Forde on the future of music streaming's subscription model
News Universal dumps DIY distribution, as Spinnup goes invite-only Spinnup is changing to a 'curated artist discovery and distribution platform'
Interviews I have seen the future of music. It’s scary, and utterly brilliant. Our mind has been blown by Soundful. Yours will be, too.
News Tuned Global teams with personalized music-for-gaming firm Reactional Music, in push to help gaming sector integrate music into gameplay B2B music streaming technology firm Tuned Global strikes deal to be Reactional Music's back-end music provider
News After listing on the NASDAQ in February, Anghami posts revenues of $35.5m for 2021, up 16% YoY Anghami has published its full year financial results for 2021