News Martin Bandier, SESAC’s John Josephson, and Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures join $5m funding round for blockchain streaming service Audius The Chainsmokers, Nas, Jason Derulo and Pusha T also invest in platform
Analysis Blog Gaming’s freemium model is making billions. For the music industry, it offers valuable lessons. What the music industry can learn from the video games sector about the long-term power and potential of free content
Analysis News David Bowie’s entire catalog is coming to Warner Music from 2023 Bowie estate strikes deal to license entirety of icon's recordings to Warner across the globe
News After selling AWAL, Kobalt pays $89m to buy back equity from shareholders Kobalt confirms to MBW that it has handed over cash from AWAL sale to some of its investors
Analysis Blog Virtual artists are an opportunity for the music business – not an enemy Spirit Bomb's Ian Simon on why he believes avatars can change the music biz – all for the better
News Nicholas Krus named Vice President, Marketing, at TuneCore Krus will manage all marketing efforts on behalf of the company
News Sony Music’s AWAL buyout raises competition concerns in the UK, says watchdog Deal could lead to worse terms for artists and less innovation in the music sector, says UK regulator
News Kanye West hits 775m streams in Donda’s first week… as Drake smashes his own Spotify record A look at the streaming numbers from two blockbuster albums released last week
Interviews ‘I don’t expect artists to have their s**t organized. That’s what I’m here for.’ Wassim 'Sal' Slaiby on his upbringing in Lebanon, arriving in Canada – and an amazing career in music
News African Music service Mdundo hits 8.7m Monthly Active Users, inks telco partnership with MTN Nigeria Mdundo listed on the Danish stock exchange (the Nasdaq First North Growth Market) in September 2020
News Shanice Edwards to receive 2021 Richard Antwi Scholarship Edwards will be awarded a full scholarship for a place on the university’s Music Business Management MA course
News Bill Ackman: Universal and Warner are both under-valued… but UMG’s the right bet for us Billionaire investor explains his rationale for paying nearly $4 billion for 10% of Universal Music Group
News From Universal Music impressing investors to Olivia Rodrigo giving credit where it’s due: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The news that mattered this week – and why it mattered
News TuneCore, which paid out over $400m to indie artists last year, has a new CEO: Andreea Gleeson Gleeson joined TuneCore in 2015, the same year it was acquired by Believe
News Spotify is giving podcasters perks that will make independent music artists very jealous US podcasters can now charge subscriptions and download a database of email addresses