News Reservoir’s revenues grew 13% YoY to $122.3m in its full fiscal year ended March 31 Reservoir has published the financial results for its fiscal Q4 2023 (calendar Q1 2023) and FY fiscal 2023, ended March 31, 2023
News Cutting Edge strikes eight-figure deal with pop songwriter and producer Jamie Hartman Hartman has written or co-written hits for artists such as Lewis Capaldi, Celeste, Calvin Harris, Rag’n’Bone Man and the Backstreet Boys
Interviews ‘Sync in all forms can be a game-changer for artists.’ Chris Jones and Sarah Pickering head up the sync department at Sony Music Publishing UK
News Apple expands availability of classical music streaming app to Android Android rollout arrives two months after the app launched on the App store
Interviews TikTok is under fire from some of music’s most powerful players. Its global music boss says the future’s bright – and answers some tough questions. Ole Obermann sits down with MBW to talk payouts, Resso, and that Australia experiment
News From the 120,000 tracks hitting streaming services daily to Universal’s AI sound partnership… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place
News CISAC reports ‘sharp’ rise in collections in Greece and global music identifier system progress in annual report International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) has published its latest annual report
News Personalised video platform HiNOTE teams up with Ticketmaster, Wu-Tang Clan and De La Soul Platform has secured what it says is a "strategic placement" on Ticketmaster
News Andrew Spence promoted to General Counsel at Sony Music Publishing UK Spence first joined the company in 2014 as a Business Affairs Manager
News Nathan Barley Phillips and Shawn Keith upped to Heads of A&R in Europe and North America at Nuclear Blast Believe-owned metal label Nuclear Blast has restructured its A&R department
Analysis Blog ‘We must make life fair for creators, or we will lose the next Paul McCartney.’ CISAC President Bjorn Ulvaeus looks ahead to next week’s CISAC General Assembly in Mexico
News Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden joins board of AI music for gaming company PlusMusic.ai PlusMusic.ai has a number music and electronic entertainment-related patents
Analysis News Rob Stringer says music streaming fraud ‘is a problem that must be eliminated’, calls for better payouts from short-form video platforms Sony Music Group Chairman covers various key industry topics in presentation to Sony Corp investors
News HYBE inks music distribution deal with Tencent Music Entertainment Deal will see music from HYBE artists including Seventeen and Tomorrow x Together made available on QQ Music, Kugou and Kuwo
News CD Baby ends distribution of vinyl and CDs to focus on streaming CD Baby to close warehouse and end physical distribution service