Interviews ‘A great song is like a great script, somebody has to curate the vision.’ Atlantic Records' in-house producer Ebonie Smith discusses how she approaches production, lessons learned across her career, and why she’d like to do away with the term 'urban'
News Despite COVID-19, Spotify’s Premium subscriber base grew by 6m in Q1 2020, up to 130m Total monthly active users (MAUs), meanwhile, grew 31% YoY to 286m.
News Chris Gobalakrishna named SVP, Finance and Operations in Asia for Warner Music Exec joins from WorldVentures where he was the company’s CFO
Analysis News Saudi fund acquires $500m stake in Live Nation – as the company balances ‘doing the right thing’ with its $3.8bn cash pot What you need to know about 'event-related deferred revenue'... and Live Nation doing the right thing
News Merck Mercuriadis has spent over $1 billion on songs in less than 2 years… and he’s about to do it all over again Hipgnosis CEO joins the MBW Podcast to talk deals, ambitions... and industry controversy
News Paradigm exec Dave Curtin joins Songtradr as VP of US Partnerships Executive was formerly the SVP of Licensing and Branded Content at Paradigm Talent Agency
News ‘If you’re an independent artist, the world is yours. You have no boundaries.’ UnitedMasters CEO and Founder, Steve Stoute, joins the MBW Podcast
News One World: Together At Home has already raised $128m for COVID-19 fight – now Universal’s releasing the album Global Citizen event launched as audio album on streaming services in collaboration with UMG
News Madison Square Garden Entertainment becomes public company, names Mark FitzPatrick as EVP and CFO MSG Entertainment has completed its spin-off from MSG Sports Corp
Blog Inside the Defected Records ‘hype machine’ Defected Chief Business Officer James Kirkham on "the science" of how the company leverages social media, events, artists and fans to maximum effect
Analysis Blog ‘The current situation is going to dramatically change the music business, as a huge accelerator of user behavior on the digital side.’ Believe CEO Denis Ladegaillerie discusses the prospects for physical music amid COVID-19 lockdown
News Santigold signs exclusive worldwide co-publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music Santigold has collaborated with the likes of Diplo, Mark Ronson, Pharrell Williams, Kanye West and others
News Defected Records acquires catalog of producer Todd Edwards Catalog features over 140 productions
News Fanbytes launches ByteLabs to help ‘TikTok play a longer-term role’ for labels and artists Bytelabs claims to have seen an increase in artist TikTok follower counts by 250% across four weeks
Interviews ‘I remember being really angry that I hadn’t done more with my life or followed my passion.’ (Then she did.) Friends At Work founder, Ty Stiklorius, on her career, the flaws of the music business – and how to treat your team properly