Analysis Would AWAL really have thrived had it not been sold to Sony Music? MBW crunches the numbers on AWAL, and asks if the UK competition watchdog is looking in the right direction
News JioSaavn and Merlin ink expanded global music licensing partnership Deal marks the first renewal between the two parties since regional music streaming service Saavn merged with India’s JioMusic
News Richard Antwi Scholarship partners with Universal Music UK to award Idris Green-Holder the second award of 2021 Idris Green-Holder becomes the fourth RAS recipient
Interviews ‘TikTok is running everything.’ Frank Harris on how Jason Derulo reinvented himself on TikTok - and the keys to building a billion dollar brand
News Downtown Music Services signs five LoFi labels to roster The five labels' releases generate over 500 million streams each year
News Meet Universal Music Group’s new board UMG has published the names of the new 10-person board, as of September 20, 2021
News Apple Music is now using Shazam technology to identify tracks in DJ Mixes so that rightsholders get paid Thousands of mixes are already available on Apple Music
Analysis Blog Virtual artists are an opportunity for the music business – not an enemy Spirit Bomb's Ian Simon on why he believes avatars can change the music biz – all for the better
News Mike Walsh joins NFT marketplace Serenade as UK Head of Strategic Partnerships Walsh is a former Head of Music at UK radio station XFM (now Radio X)
News Tamaki Yamashita named Director of SPACE SHOWER FUGA, as joint venture opens for business in Japan First announced in December 2020, the JV adds 15 Japanese DSPs to FUGA’s network of DSPs across APAC
News Roberto Neri, ex-Downtown EVP, joins Utopia Music as COO Fast-growing music tech company now has over 100 employees – and is continuing to staff up
Analysis Blog Why Are (Some) Record Labels and Music Publishers Still Only Reporting Every 6 Months? Curve Royalty Systems' Tom Allen says 'that's the way we've always done it' is no longer good enough
News China is banning music that ‘insults or defames others’ in its 50,000 karaoke venues New crackdown on offensive music coming in October as market's industry power keeps growing
News Aerosmith inks deal to bring entire catalog to Universal Music Group Deal will bring the band's current Sony Music recordings into a Universal Music Group partnership
Interviews ‘We always put the songwriter at the centre of everything we do – globally.’ It’s a new era for Sony Music Publishing, with a global rebrand from the historic Sony/ATV name. Here, the leaders of Sony Music Publishing UK explain why the name change is symptomatic of a wider transformation...