Analysis Blog ‘Think Billie Eilish meets Lil Nas X, but more organic…’ Lucas Keller, founder of Milk + Honey, sounds off on record label A&R...
Analysis Blog Why does the music industry still judge itself in weekly intervals? Are charts which appear every seven days really cut out for the modern era?
News Vodafone-owned Vodacom’s My Muze app takes on Spotify in South Africa with 1m downloads Vodafone subsidiary Vodacom boasts over 40m customers
News When it comes to music distribution, artists should beware of the industry’s tourists Nick Gordon of Symphonic Distribution gives his view on those offering incredible deals to artists
News Because Music boss Emmanuel De Buretel calls for Spotify and rivals to adopt ‘user-centric’ licensing 'The so-called 'user centric' model, based on a user-based income distribution, would be more virtuous.'
News LyricFind receives Government funding to promote Canadian content via lyrics The two-year project supports the licensing, transcription and translation of Canadian artists and songwriters’ lyrics
Analysis Who is the biggest hit songwriter working today? According to MBW's calculations, in the first half of 2019... it was Sony/ATV signing Louis Bell
News Apple Music to host Up Next Live concerts featuring Bad Bunny, Lewis Capaldi, Jessie Reyez and others All shows will be hosted after hours in Apple stores
News Troy Carter’s Q&A chooses Max Lousada’s Warner for deal offering artists an ‘upstream’ to a ‘global network’ "Having a partnership with WMG allows us to upstream independent artists that are looking to release through a major label system, therefore, enabling us to continue to add value at every stage of their career.”
News A day after Spotify quits artist distribution, SoundCloud explains how it helps indie acts ‘build careers on their own terms’ Blog post was followed by an Instagram Q&A to "answer creator’s questions about distribution".
News Spotify decides it doesn’t want to be a distributor after all "The best way for us to serve artists and labels is to focus our resources on developing tools in areas where Spotify can uniquely benefit them."
News Ethiopia Habtemariam: ‘The music business is changing all the time. If you’re not willing to innovate, you’re gonna be left in the dust.’ Motown's Ethiopia Habtemariam on hip-hop's explosion, ego in the music business – and Motown's new age
Interviews How Songtradr is simplifying sync – and aiming to become the definitive B2B music licensing platform Songtradr founder and CEO, Paul Wiltshire, on the sync industry and his company's future
Interviews ‘I was raised to fight for the underdog.’ Corrie Christopher Martin – a senior figure at Paradigm Talent Agency – on her career and the industry today
Interviews ‘Music is significantly undervalued – people are thinking about it in the wrong way.’ Kobalt's Willard Ahdritz talks publishing, major record companies, and the true worth of the business today