News SiriusXM launches $9.99-a-month Spotify challenger SiriusXM unveils new streaming app and 'Streaming All Access Plan' for $9.99 a month
News Jay Schumer appointed Executive Vice President, Head of Marketing & Business Development at Island Records Schumer previously worked at Columbia Records, most recently as Executive Vice President / Co-Head of Marketing
Analysis News Reservoir Media’s revenues grew 15% YoY to $38.4m in calendar Q3 Reservoir Media raises guidance after 15% surge in revenue
News Country star Kane Brown sells ‘select publishing assets’ to HarbourView Investment firm led by Sherrese Clarke Soares announces its latest acquisition
News Hipgnosis Songs Fund names Rob Naylor as new Chairman, Francis Keeling as non-executive director Former Round Hill board members jump over to Hipgnosis Songs Fund amid continuation turbulence
News Audius rolls out music marketplace, partners with DistroKid and Beatport Partnership will allow indie artists to upload their music to Audius
News Sean Michael Gross promoted to Vice President, Warner Classics UK & North America Gross has headed up Warner Classics in the UK since joining the company in 2021
Analysis News From HYBE’s $400m+ in Q3 to Kobalt’s partnership with Morgan Stanley… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days
Analysis Talking ‘garbage’: How can Spotify and co sort the dregs of the music business from the hidden treasures? On Sir Lucian Grainge's bluntness, Believe's rebellion, and why a careful balance is required to find a true 'artist-centric' formula
News Concord acquires Round Hill’s UK fund, after $469m sale was approved by latter firm’s shareholders last month Deal includes over 150,000 songs and 51 catalogs
News Warner Chappell Music renews partnership with hit songwriter Rick Boardman He has written songs that have received more than five billion streams on Spotify alone
News Morgan Stanley is investing more than $700m to buy music copyrights in partnership with Kobalt Deal represents a return to managing investment for outside capital for Kobalt, which sold $1.4 billion in portfolios in past few years
Interviews Scott Cohen on his optimism for the music industry – and JKBX’s ‘transformative’ launch The CEO of new music trading platform speaks to MBW about the future for JKBX and much more
News TikTok strikes global deal with DistroKid for indie artists to upload music to TikTok Music and CapCut The deal will see music distributed by DistroKid available across TikTok Music, CapCut, and in TikTok's Commercial Music Library
News Personalized music for games company Reactional Music strikes deal with Defected Records Defected has licensed the masters for a selection of tracks from its wider catalog for use on Reactional’s music delivery platform and personalization engine