News When it comes to music distribution, artists should beware of the industry’s tourists Nick Gordon of Symphonic Distribution gives his view on those offering incredible deals to artists
Analysis Who is the biggest hit songwriter working today? According to MBW's calculations, in the first half of 2019... it was Sony/ATV signing Louis Bell
News Troy Carter’s Q&A chooses Max Lousada’s Warner for deal offering artists an ‘upstream’ to a ‘global network’ "Having a partnership with WMG allows us to upstream independent artists that are looking to release through a major label system, therefore, enabling us to continue to add value at every stage of their career.”
News Epidemic Sound raises $20m, announces expansion into South Korea Company to launch in South Korea via a partnership with DS Asset Management
News Apple Music now has over 60m subscribers worldwide Rival Spotify topped 100m global subscribers at the end of Q1 this year
Analysis Audio streaming growth fell by 5% in the United States in the first half of 2019 Lil Nas X was the biggest track in H1 2019 – but he couldnt prevent a slight slowdown in the numbers
Interviews ‘We have to understand: without the song, there is no artist.’ Rodney Jerkins, aka Darkchild, joins MBW's World's Greatest Songwriters series
News Ethiopia Habtemariam: ‘The music business is changing all the time. If you’re not willing to innovate, you’re gonna be left in the dust.’ Motown's Ethiopia Habtemariam on hip-hop's explosion, ego in the music business – and Motown's new age
Interviews How Songtradr is simplifying sync – and aiming to become the definitive B2B music licensing platform Songtradr founder and CEO, Paul Wiltshire, on the sync industry and his company's future
Interviews ‘Music is significantly undervalued – people are thinking about it in the wrong way.’ Kobalt's Willard Ahdritz talks publishing, major record companies, and the true worth of the business today
News The music industry is tackling streaming fraud with a pointless ‘Code’. It won’t work… but these ideas might. Penalties for artists, penalties for staff, more funding – why wasn't any of this in the industry's own policies?
News The music industry just failed to fix streaming fraud with a toothless ‘Code of Conduct’ The industry has come together to pledge... nothing new, really
Interviews JioSaavn: ‘We’re doing for music what Netflix did for movies.’ The service's CEO, Rishi Malhotra, discusses his company's uniqueness – and the power of parent company Jio
News TikTok parent hires ex-Deezer exec to run music biz relations in Latin America Executive was previously Head of Music Industry Relations Americas at Deezer
News Charles Caldas to step down as CEO of Merlin at end of 2019 Caldas to exit role after more than 12 years