Interviews ‘If your management plan is to try and get a record to blow up on TikTok… you don’t have a plan.’ Crush Management founder Jonathan Daniel recalls bringing emo to the masses and reflects on 20 years at the top
Analysis News No Netflix problems here: Spotify added 2m net subscribers in Q1 – despite cutting off 1.5 million subs in Russia Spotiify beats guidance on various key metric for its business – when you factor in Russia – including users and subscribers
Analysis Spotify faces its most crucial earnings call yet. Here are the 3 difficult questions MBW would be asking. After Netflix's shocker of a Q1, all eyes are on Spotify's equivalent fiscal announcement. Here's what MBW would ask Daniel Ek.
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 After teaming up with SoundCloud, Splice partners with African music streaming service, Boomplay Companies to introduce 'beat battle' and new series of sample packs and collections called 'Beyond Afrobeats'
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 Former file-sharing platform LimeWire raises $10.4m in private token sale to grow its NFT marketplace Investment came from DAO Jones ( includingSteve Aoki) and Deadmau5’s fund 720Mau5
News Ankur Patel named Chief Business Officer at Venice Music Patel joins Venice from the music tech company Splice
Analysis Blog Why Ed Sheeran’s copyright victory matters – by the lawyers that represented him. The following op/ed comes from Simon Goodbody and Mark Krais, Partner and co-founding Partner at Bray & Krais Solicitors
News Bob Roback stepping down as CEO of Ingrooves Music Group after 7 years Roback has led Ingrooves through significant revenue growth, as well as global expansion
News Songwriter Skyler Stonestreet sells catalog to Influence Media Partners in ‘multi-million dollar’ deal Stonestreet has written hits for Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, Dua Lipa and more