Analysis News Concord music rights to fuel $1.65bn Apollo bond offering – report Report marks the latest news about a music company launching bond offerings via securitized royalties from copyrights
Interviews News Lyor Cohen: ‘The music industry is facing one of our biggest crises to date.’ Cohen argues that YouTube Shorts offers a distinctive difference to the likes of TikTok or Instagram Reels
News UK competition watchdog finds major record labels are not ‘making significant excess profits that could be shared with creators’ Competition and Markets Authority's final report published
Interviews News How $40m-backed Symphonic Distribution plans to be a ‘true alternative’ to traditional labels Founder & CEO Jorge Brea on the challenges in the distribution space and how his company is trying to differentiate itself
Analysis The music industry isn’t ready for the AI revolution. Fruits Music founder, Stef Van Vugt, believes that AI will create a major opportunity for ambitious companies to challenge the majors
News BMG acquires music interests of Eurodance star Haddaway Deal with Haddaway includes his debut single and global hit What Is Love
News Japan’s Avex Group strikes licensing deal with NetEase Cloud Music Deal gives NCM the right to distribute Avex's music catalog in China
Interviews News Artist financing platform beatBread closes $100m fund to ’empower independent artists and labels’ Launched in November 2020, company has made over 500 advances to artists and labels
News Universal just launched its own streaming service for classical music via Deutsche Grammophon A subscription for STAGE+ will cost EUR €14.90 per month, or €149 per year
News From Taylor Swift crashing Ticketmaster to Tencent Music’s 1,000+ AI songs… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up Our biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip
Analysis Blog While in Qatar, gently weep: music and the rancid politics of culture-washing at the World Cup Eamonn Forde gives his views on the upcoming football (soccer) World Cup, and music's involvement
News Downtown makes strategic investment in ‘LinkedIn for creatives’ Vampr 'Vampr has carved out an important niche in our industry,' said Downtown's Tracy Maddux
News Primary Wave buys Whitney Houston hits as part of deal with songwriters Shannon Rubicam and George Merrill Deal follows Primary Wave's $2 billion deal with financial giant Brookfield last month
News Reservoir wants to spend $100m on music rights this year. It says deal flow – and multiples – aren’t slowing down just yet. Golnar Khosrowshahi says Reservoir still has $2.1 billion pipeline deals still under discussion
News Vevo to launch six new channels on Hulu Live TV Channels include Vevo Pop, Vevo Hip-Hop, Vevo Country, Vevo ‘80s, Vevo ‘90s and Vevo Holiday