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
News BTS label Big Hit Entertainment inks global deal with video steaming firm Kiswe, whose tech is used by the NBA, MLS and PGA Tour First collaborative project is a multi-view live streamed event on June 14
Analysis News Goldman Sachs just cut its 2020 paid music streaming revenue forecast by $2.2bn… but the future still looks bright Adjustments to the financial giant's forecasts say much about the future of the music business at large
News Spirit Music Group signs Dua Lipa collaborator Nick Gale Professionally known as Digital Farm Animals