News Rachel Kelly joins Utopia Music as Vice President for Australia Exec will be in charge of setting up Utopia’s activities in Australia, New Zealand and other Australasian key territories
News HYBE and Universal signal start of ‘historic joint venture’ with global search for new pop girl group Group will be based in Los Angeles and music will be released via JV label in partnership with Geffen
News Chris Gobalakrishna and Jonathan Serbin named Co-Presidents of Warner Music Asia Gobalakrishna and Serbin will accelerate the company's strategy in the region over the coming years
Interviews ‘The artists you stick with for a long time are those who understand that there are ups and downs.’ Verdigris Management founder Sam Denniston on managing two of the UK’s most acclaimed dance acts, life away from labels and avoiding the blame game...
Interviews ‘What we’re building at Downtown has never been done before.’ Andrew Bergman and Justin Kalifowitz on Downtown Music Holdings, present and future...
News Vevo unveils 2022’s Artists To Watch, partners with MBW to showcase rising stars Leading global video platform reveals first influential tastemaker list of the year
News TuneCore strikes partnership with Peloton Music TuneCore to start distributing artists' music to Peloton Music
Analysis News Sony Music’s quarterly streaming revenues burst above $1bn for the first time MBW breaks down the numbers in an historic quarter for Rob Stringer's major
News Read Sir Lucian Grainge’s first statement to investors as the CEO of a publicly-traded Universal Music Group UMG boss outlines "long-term, career-oriented" vision for the future
Analysis Blog Six reasons why regionality still matters for the global music streaming business This MBW op/ed comes from Ryan Blakeley, a Ph.D. in Musicology candidate at the Eastman School of Music.
Analysis News Is Universal Music Group going to post a $2bn EBITDA profit this year? UMG announces another impressive set of quarterly results – this time as a public company
News Timbaland mints his first collection of NFTs, from upcoming EP, Opera Noir Timbaland has created a series of NFTs composed of stems, hooks and beats from his upcoming EP
News Here’s exactly what Spotify, Apple and other streaming services want to pay songwriters from 2023 onwards. MBW rifles through the filings of Big Tech to see what the likes of Google and Spotify are proposing
News Erica Clayton promoted to Senior Director, Client Success, at Tunecore Clayton joined the company in 2019