Analysis News Exclusive: Scooter Braun wanted to sell Taylor Swift her masters. What happened? If you were gripped by MBW's investigation into this saga last week... buckle up
News BMG acquires Paul Simon royalty streams from Simon & Garfunkel recordings in ‘significant transaction’ Deal does not cover Simon's work as a solo artist
Analysis News The US recorded music industry grew by $500m on a wholesale basis in 2022. The US music publishing industry grew by nearly double that amount. Boosted by CRB result and record performance income, the US music publishing industry flew last year
News Sacem’s revenues jumped 34% to $1.49bn in 2022. How did that compare to other leading PROs? Sacem paid out €1.056 billion ($1.112 billion) to authors, composers and publishers worldwide in the year, marking a 19% YoY jump
News Motown Records strikes metaverse partnership with Second Life and music for games platform STYNGR Partnership includes virtual venue and dedicated Motown Records radio station in Second Life curated by Motown and STYNGR
News Jason Ellis joins Armada Music as Global Senior A&R Director Ellis will also serve as an Acquisition Consultant for BEAT Music Fund
News TikTok plans to invest ‘billions of dollars’ in Southeast Asia Company's CEO was speaking at a forum organized by TikTok in Singapore
News Hasbro secures exclusive global admin deal with Sony Music Publishing for Peppa Pig, Transformers and more Partnership will see Sony Music Publishing representing Hasbro's global catalog
News ASCAP unveils initiatives around AI to ‘help music creators navigate the future while protecting their work’ Organization has laid out a set of principles and advocacy positions with respect to AI
News UnitedMasters expands its reach into Africa, partners with Nigerian producer Sarz to ’empower the next generation of African talent’ Partnership will provide access to 'brand and sync opportunities, and capital' for Sarz' 1789 imprint to develop talent from Africa
News Warner Music Group ventures into games publishing with ‘Invector: Rhythm Galaxy’ WMG parters with game studio, Hello There Games
News Meta just released an AI music generator that was trained on 20,000 hours of licensed music Researchers at Facebook's parent company have developed an AI text-to-music generator called MusicGen
News Nile Rodgers named as Apple Music’s Artist in Residence focusing on Spatial Audio Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio was rolled out on Apple Music in June 2021
Analysis News From Deezer’s AI music strategy, to who HYBE might try to buy in Latin Music… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place
Analysis HYBE is raising a stack of capital to buy Latin Music companies. Who might it target? MBW picks out 10 companies that might just be on the minds of Scooter Braun and HYBE Chairman, Bang Si-Hyuk