News Warner strikes deal with sports music licensing company ClicknClear ClicknClear claims to be the world’s only specialist music rights tech and licensing company for performance sports
News Spotify acquires two podcast firms, Podsights and Chartable Podsights is a podcast advertising measurement service, and Chartable is a podcast analytics platform
News Jhared ‘Jae’ Brown joins Island Records as Vice President, A&R Brown comes to Island after two years at indie label Rostrum Records
News Snoop Dogg sells over $44m worth of ‘Stash Box’ NFTs in just five days News follows the hip hop legend's acquisition of the Death Row Records brand from MNRK Music Group
News Jon Glass and Alasdair McMullan join SoundExchange Board of Directors Glass and McMullan will lend business development expertise and legal acumen to the organization
News Music licensing company PPL reached a record $128m in international collections last year Since 2006 PPL has collected nearly £700m ($951m) of international revenue.
News Tracklib strikes licensing deal with BANDAI NAMCO to bring anime music samples to producers BANDAI NAMCO is also an operator of the music label Lantis
News Nas and Lil Baby-backed metaverse firm Everyrealm closes $60m funding round led by Andreesen Horowitz The firm is led by CEO Janine Yorio
Analysis Blog Artists should take a principled stance against Spotify for songwriters The following MBW Op/ed comes from David Israelite, the President and CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association
News Elliot Grainge acquires Homemade Projects label, founders Zach Friedman and Tony Talamo named Co-Presidents of 10K Projects The Elliot Grainge-founded company has also acquired the Homemade Projects label
Interviews ‘The indie versus major notion is outdated in the digital age.’ MBW’s World Leaders series interviews Marie-Anne Robert, Managing Director of Sony Music Entertainment France
News Warner Music Group generated nearly $1bn from streaming last quarter WMG has published its quarterly results (for fiscal Q1 2022, but calendar Q4 2021)
News Irene Agbontaen named Director of Artist Brand Strategy at United Talent Agency Agbontaen will focus on artist brand strategy for UTA's London office’s European roster of clients
News Spotify rival Anghami gets approval to list on NASDAQ Anghami has more than 75 million registered users
Analysis News Spotify added 3m new creators to its platform last year… and 4 other things we learned from the firm’s Q4 earnings call. The Spotify founder gave some revelatory comments on Spotify's earnings call – especially around the creator economy