News Spotify now has an activist shareholder with a history of pushing for price rises ValueAct took a position in the New York Times last year
Interviews ‘I don’t take it for granted when someone trusts me to help them with their career – their life, really. That’s a giant statement in itself.’ Kerri Edwards talks about how she helped take Luke Bryan from bars to arenas and what she learned along the way
Interviews TikTok, indie tracks, AI, and tech-driven ‘efficiencies’: Robert Kyncl’s first earnings call at WMG wasn’t short on punchiness MBW digests the new Warner boss's first-ever earnings call
Analysis Interviews ‘The MENA region will become a pioneer in the music industry.’ Nada Alhelabi, Strategy Director at MDLBEAST & XP Music Futures Program Director on the challenges and opportunities for the music business in Saudi Arabia and the wider MENA region...
Analysis Blog It’s time to stop romanticising the music business ‘radical’ The following op/ed comes from long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde
News Songtradr to acquire 7digital, a UK publicly listed B2B music technology company, in $23.4m deal 7digital provides a catalog of over 80 million licensed tracks and offers API services to power music in apps
Analysis Is TikTok about to pull off a heist on the music industry? Could indie tracks and AI music successfully replace major label music on the platform?
News Zach Bryan signs global publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music Artist and songwriter has more than one billion global streams
News Concord has a new CEO, as Bob Valentine succeeds Scott Pascucci in management transition News follows a similar shake-up at BMG
News TikTok launches DIY distro service SoundOn in Australia, the same week it started limiting access to major label music in the market SoundOn was already Live in the UK, US, Brazil and Indonesia
News Major record company market share on Spotify fell again in 2022, as indie tracks flooded the service Companies including TuneCore and parent Believe are eating into market share that was traditionally held by larger companies
Interviews ‘Songs are the engine of the music industry and sometimes people can lose sight of that’ Amy Allen discusses writing some of the biggest pop hits of recent times, the joy of collaborating and making Grammy history
Interviews How Max Martin’s songwriting techniques are used to write hit, after hit, after hit Top40 Theory founder Asaf Peres on how he studied Max Martin's songs to build out his Melodic Math Course
Analysis Interviews ‘Nearly 3 out of every 4 on-demand audio streams is coming from music that’s 10 years old or younger.’ Kevin Gore, President of Global Catalog at Warner Music Group, on the company's approach to catalog and trends in the market...
Analysis News Spotify wants 50 million creators on its platform by 2030. BandLab already has 60 million. And wait until you read how many tracks are being made on the Singapore-headquartered platform each month...