News Deadmau5 and Richie Hawtin raise $4.5m to build ‘the leading music metaverse’ Could PIXELYNX build music's definitive metaverse?
News Kobalt is shorn, reborn… and still full of scorn (for those who keep money from songwriters) Willard Ahdritz and Laurent Hubert explain Kobalt's sell-offs, and why they're coming for collection society wastage
News Record labels really, really don’t like a new Bill that could – eventually – change how artists get paid in the UK Kevin Brennan MP has published a draft of his recommendations for UK politicians... and the labels don't like it one bit
News Epic Games buys Rock Band maker Harmonix to ‘reimagine how music is experienced, created and distributed’ Harmonix is the creator of the popular Rock Band and Dance Central franchises
Interviews For a fund with over $1bn to spend on music rights, Tempo is rather quiet. It likes things that way. Tempo CEO Josh Empson explains his Providence-owned fund's strategy in the music business
News Joyner Lucas, Nas join $55m funding round in 3LAU’s blockchain-based music investment platform Royal Platform aims to enable fractional music ownership through its own version of NFTs
News Sony Music buys $100m of shares in NetEase’s music service; Chinese platform’s IPO set for December 2 Sony Music named as Cornerstone Investor ahead of IPO
News Synchtank raises $5.8m in Series A funding round led by Octopus Ventures Latest investment brings firm's total raised in the past year to $6.6m
News Voice and music recognition firm SoundHound to list on NASDAQ with $2.1bn valuation via SPAC merger Firm has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Archimedes Tech SPAC Partners Co
News AI-powered music platform Aimi raises $20m in Series B funding round Platform uses Artificial Intelligence to play an 'endless' stream of music created by DJs and producers
News Vevo Artists to Watch 2022: CHiiild, Jawny, Nija, Clinton Kane MBW presents four more artists from the Vevo DSCVR Artists To Watch 2022 list
News From Elton John not selling his catalog to TIDAL’s user-centric payments – It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The music industry's biggest few stories from the past week, and why they matter
News Warner Music Group is now a serious modern media publisher – and it’s axing the historic WEA brand to prove it Stat Of The Week: How Warner Music Group has built a collection of owned media brands that reach nearly 250 million people a month
News Warner just raised $535 million in debt to buy… something. But what will it be? Could Warner swoop for 300, Concord – or something else entirely?
Analysis Blog Wax on, wax off: unblocking the great vinyl logjam Columnist Eamonn Forde's 12-point checklist to fix the vinyl backlog