News Amazon Music exec Sahas Malhotra joins JioSaavn as CEO Malhotra was most recently Director of Amazon Music in India
News Universal Music Publishing Group inks global deal with Glass Animals lead singer Dave Bayley In 2020, Glass Animals released the RIAA Triple Platinum hit Heat Waves, solely written and produced by Bayley
Interviews ‘I love the pressure, I love the deals, I love the win.’ Adrian Sykes interviews Atlantic Records’ Rich Castillo about his experiences, ambitions, passions and gripes within the UK music industry…
News Snapchat, which now reaches over 600m monthly users, inks Augmented Reality partnership with Live Nation Festival attendees will be able to use AR to 'try on merch, find friends' and more
News After TikTok and SoundCloud, Tencent Music is a distributor now too TME has already distributed and promoted more than 150,000 songs to overseas platforms
News FUGA strikes distribution deal with Stockholm-based indie label YEAR0001 Ebba Guhnby also named Business Development Manager for the Nordics at FUGA
Interviews ‘I would like to see more women brought into the boardroom. We have come a long way, but still have a lot of work to do.’ In this feature, Cris Falcão, Ingrooves Music Group's Managing Director in Brazil, tells us about her career in the music industry, challenges in the market, and her objectives for 2022
News Could one of these startups become the new TikTok or SoundCloud? Meet Techstars Music class of 2022.
News 135,000 artists are now getting paid through SoundCloud’s Fan-Powered Royalties platform Platform pledges to match 100% of revenue earned by independent artists on Friday, April 29
News Having paid $222m to artists in 2021, TuneCore has now surpassed total payouts of $2.5bn Artists using the platform have achieved 500bn streams and 700m downloads
Interviews News ‘Web3 will be a building block for every musician in the future.’ Justin Blau tells MBW how Royal wants to be positioned in the music business, and gives us his predictions for the NFT space...
News NFT platform SoundMint raises $1.7m led by the Sandbox parent Animoca Brands SoundMint says that its NFTs are musical compositions derived from stems
News From Cinq Music raising $100m to Midem’s return in 2023 : It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
News Ankur Patel named Chief Business Officer at Venice Music Patel joins Venice from the music tech company Splice
Interviews Luis Sánchez, CEO of AfinArte: ‘Latin artists are now global artists.’ MBW's Trailblazers series kicks off with one of Mexico's premier independent music entrepreneurs