Interviews David Hodges on writing with Ed Sheeran, selling his catalog, and refusing to be fixated on fame The Grammy-winning writer and producer opens up on his career and his approach to songwriting
News Big Hit and Universal ‘rewrite global music history’ with joint K-pop label, expanded partnership Global search for K-pop boy band set to begin in 2022 as Bang Si-Hyuk and Sir Lucian Grainge announce new pact
Interviews ‘We were just young kids who wanted to be around music – there was no plan.’ Take a Daytrip on their career and working with superstars like Travis Scott
News Pop Smoke was SoundCloud’s Top Artist this year. His music was streamed over 191.5m times on the platform in 2020 SoundCloud's Top Track was Lil Mosey's single Blueberry Faygo
News Big Hit’s Weverse app has been key to its $400m pandemic success. Now it’s expanding the tech to Universal Music Group artists. Gracie Abrams, Alexander 23 and YUNGBLUD to become first US-signed artists to get Weverse fan communities
Interviews ‘I try not to be too abrasive with people. I’m not the type to tell someone, This sucks; you need to do it over.’ Cirkut is the latest interviewee in MBW's World's Greatest Producers series
News Despite the pandemic, Big Hit Entertainment generated revenues of $436m in the first 9 months of 2020 New results shine light on BTS label's progress in IPO year
Interviews Guy Moot on A&R, Warner Chappell… and ‘signing real quality’ Guy Moot has been global CEO of Warner Chappell for 18 months. Fresh from hiring a new head of the UK, Moot tells his story, then and now…
News K-Pop stars BTS draw nearly 1m to latest pay-per-view online concert – banking big money in the process It's likely that the 'MAP OF THE SOUL ON:E' event generated over $35m
News Uncategorized BTS label Big Hit Entertainment confirms share pricing for IPO, carrying $4bn+ company valuation Company will raise $820m through the IPO
News BTS partners with Epic Games for new video premiere on Fortnite’s Party Royale Main Stage In-game event to take place on Friday, September 25
News 3 things the major labels can learn from Big Hit, home of BTS Lessons from Bang Si-hyuk's comments at Big Hit's Corporate Briefing last week
Analysis News 1 in 5 streams on Tencent Music platforms will be behind a paywall by the end of 2020 In China, where YouTube is blocked, TME is seeing its paywall strategy starting to reap financial benefits
News BTS bank close to $20m from a single pay-per-view online concert 'Bang Bang Con: The Live' attracted 756,600 concurrent viewers at its peak
News Thailand’s B-Concept Media Entertainment Group raises $5m Funding will be used to expand company's marketing, events, production and ticketing businesses