News Faryal Khan-Thompson named SVP of Marketing and Community Engagement at CD Baby Khan-Thompson joins from TuneCore where she served as VP, International
News Tuned Global joins forces with telco Tusass to launch music streaming service in Greenland App will be Greenland's first local streaming service
Analysis News From Universal’s $50m deal in Thailand to TikTok’s new music streaming service… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The headlines from the past week you can't afford to miss...
News After Nelly’s reported $50m deal with HarbourView, company buys ‘select’ recorded music and publishing assets from Wiz Khalifa HarbourView Equity Partners announces its second deal with a US hip-hop star this week
News Music-for-gaming firm Reactional strikes deal with Sony and Universal-owned production music firm, APM APM Music claims to be North America’s largest aggregator of production music
Analysis News TikTok launches premium-only ‘TikTok Music’ streaming service – and it’s licensed by all three majors TikTok launches Spotify rival in Brazil and Indonesia
Interviews Instrumental invites independent labels to join its AI-powered ‘Label Builder’ program – with guaranteed 20% streaming revenue growth Conrad Withey and team explain Instrumental's confidence in promising indie label clients a revenue uplift from streaming
Analysis News Queen shows no sign of fading into history as band’s earnings jump 4.3% to $50m in 2022 Latest annual report published by Queen Productions Ltd.
Analysis TikTok’s parent has launched an AI music making app. What might this mean for the video platform’s music licensing talks? How might the launch of Ripple, an AI-powered music making app, play into the short-form video platform's future licensing negotiations
Analysis Taylor Swift’s ‘Taylor’s Version’ re-records may be exceeding even her high expectations MBW crunches the latest streaming figures for Swift's catalog, and mulls what it means for her masterplan
News Mike Molinar promoted to President at Big Machine Music Molinar has led BMM since its inception in 2011
News Wissam Khodur, a.k.a Eslam Jawaad, joins PopArabia as VP of A&R and Acquisitions He was was most recently Spotify’s Head of the Middle East and North Africa
Analysis Universal is spending $50 million to boost its market share in Thailand. Expect more M&A activity in Asia to follow. The majority-acquisition of RS Group in Thailand may indicate that more M&A swoops are on the way from Universal
News Sony Music Latin partners with Switzerland-based interactive entertainment firm Nexoom Nexoom specializes in livestreaming, esports, gaming, music, sports and non-gaming content
Analysis Blog ‘Clustering reduces the risk of the wrong rights owners being paid and assists in making performer line-ups as complete and consistent as possible.’ PPL’s Chief Information Officer Mark Douglas examines the potential for ‘clustering’ to help solve problems ranging from accuracy to fraud…