News Mike Caren’s Artist Publishing Group inks deal with Chrishan in partnership with Warner Chappell Chrishan commented: "I couldn’t be more excited to join forces with APG and continue to work with my incredible publishing family at Warner Chappell."
News Is TikTok (or ByteDance) slowly morphing into a record company? Evidence is building that such a description might one day fit...
News Splice just launched an AI-powered app that makes music with you New app CoSo uses AI to find sound samples from across the Splice catalog
Interviews ‘If the music industry wants to continue its exponential growth, its data backbone needs to become significantly more efficient.’ With partnerships in place with Warner, Deezer, FUGA and more, Verifi Media believes its patent-pending tech is a game-changer for music
News Universal Music Group revenues hit $2.46bn in Q1 2022 Top sellers for the quarter included releases from Disney’s ‘Encanto’ Soundtrack, King & Prince, The Weeknd, Fujii Kaze and Ado
Interviews ‘I think a lot of managers just go through the motions rather than come up with new ways to do things; they leave the burden of creativity on the artists, but business should be creative as well’ In Part Two of our feature on Crush Management we talk to Bob McLynn about the firm's 20 years in the business and how managers need to be as creative as their artists
Analysis News From The Weeknd’s Universal deal to Spotify’s Q1 results: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
News John Legend’s NFT platform just raised $7.5m, led by The Sandbox parent Animoca Brands 'We’re focused on democratizing NFTs for the masses,' said Our Happy Company co-founder and CEO Chris Lin
News Believe renews deals with NetEase Cloud Music and Tencent Music Entertainment 'We are thrilled to have renewed our deals with both TME and NetEase Cloud Music,' said Sylvain Delange, Believe's Managing Director, APAC
Interviews ‘I love the pressure, I love the deals, I love the win.’ Adrian Sykes interviews Atlantic Records’ Rich Castillo about his experiences, ambitions, passions and gripes within the UK music industry…
News BMG acquires Primal Scream song rights BMG has acquired a 50% stake in the song interests of Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes and the late Robert Young, together with their neighbouring rights
News After TikTok and SoundCloud, Tencent Music is a distributor now too TME has already distributed and promoted more than 150,000 songs to overseas platforms
News The Weeknd signs publishing pact with Universal – and he’s thrown new recordings and merch into the package too The Weeknd has sold more than 75 million albums.
Interviews ‘If your management plan is to try and get a record to blow up on TikTok… you don’t have a plan.’ Crush Management founder Jonathan Daniel recalls bringing emo to the masses and reflects on 20 years at the top
News NetEase Cloud Music sues rival Tencent Music over ‘unfair competition’ claims NetEase announced the legal proceedings in a social media statement