Analysis News Watch out Spotify: Multiple verified ‘TikTok Music’ Twitter accounts hint at pending global launch At least six verified Twitter accounts for ‘TikTok Music’ have popped up for multiple global markets
News Country superstar Blake Shelton sells catalog to Influence Media Partners Catalog ahs sold more than 10m albums worldwide to date
Analysis News After 10 long years, the handcuffs are coming off Universal Music Group in Europe. In 2012, the European Commission banned UMG from making a wide range of deals in Europe. That ban just expired.
News Explorer1 Music buys crowdfunding platform Music Benefactors EX1 plans to relaunch Music Benefactors as a new technology and marketing platform
News The Weeknd-backed personalized song creation startup Songfinch raises $17m in Series A round Latest round brings the company’s total funding to-date to $21.8 million
Interviews News With fresh eight-figure financing, and a new CEO, Napster wants to take Web3 music to the mainstream MBW interviews Napster's new CEO Jon Vlassopulos
Interviews ‘A one size fits all approach in music is holding back creativity.’ Corite COO Emelie Olsson discusses the future of the platform, the evolution of audience-power in music, Web3 and much more besides
Interviews ‘Chocolate City is a safe haven for creatives.’ MBW’s World Leaders series interviews Abuchi Ugwu, CEO of Nigeria-based record label Chocolate City
Analysis Interviews News New $100m-backed fund launches to buy catalogs in Asia, led by industry veteran Chee Meng Tan and ex-Universal Music China MD Garand Wu Singapore-based music fund launches with initial raise of USD $100m
News VR concert startup AmazeVR raises $17m, with Korea’s CJ Entertainment joining as strategic investor Past investors re-up interests, including Mirae Asset Capital, Mirae Asset Venture Investment, CJ Investment, Smilegate Investment and others
News Hume attracts $11.7m in funding to grow roster of Web3 artists Investment firm TCG Crypto led the funding round
News Kebu Commissiong, Carlos Escalona Cruz, Matt DuFour and Lou Plaia named A&R Directors at Sentric New hires follow Sentric’s move into North America
News Napster hires Roblox former Global Head of Music, Jon Vlassopulos, as CEO Company has also announced a new funding round
Analysis J.P. Morgan just wrote a glowing endorsement of Hipgnosis Songs Fund. Here’s why. The investment giant just gave a thundering vote of confidence in HSF's business, following a recent flurry of business media scrutiny
Interviews ‘The more inclusive we become, the more successful we will be.’ Doreen Schimk, co-President of Warner Music Central Europe, discusses gender equality in music, bringing German hip-hop to the global stage, and much more besides