News BMG acquires music interests of blues icon John Lee Hooker The acquisition is the latest in a string of recent deals completed by BMG to acquire rights from superstar musicians
News After partnering with Universal, Aerosmith strike global brand management deal with Epic Rights Universal's merchandising arm Bravado fully acquired Los Angeles-based Epic Rights for an undisclosed sum in 2019
News Kid Cudi co-founded AR music app Encore launches with $9m in funding Funding round was led by Battery Ventures
News Round Hill’s UK fund has acquired 5,600 songs since July, paying an average multiple of 17.9x Fresh information revealed in London Stock Exchange-traded fund's new filing
News Tracklib strikes licensing deal with BANDAI NAMCO to bring anime music samples to producers BANDAI NAMCO is also an operator of the music label Lantis
News Reservoir has $3bn worth of deals in ‘pipeline’ and expects to spend $200m+ on M&A during first year as public firm Reservoir Media has published the financial results for its fiscal Q3 2022 (calendar Q4 2021), ended December 31, 2021
News Snoop Dogg acquires Death Row Records from MNRK Music Group 'I am thrilled and appreciative of the opportunity to acquire the iconic and culturally significant Death Row Records brand,' says Snoop Dogg
News Music funding platform beatBread raises $34m BeatBread offers advances ranging from $1,000 to $2 million per artist
News A new firm just raised over $100m to buy film and TV music rights – and it’s already made its first big acquisition Catalog includes the film and TV music scores for Fantastic Beasts, the Hunger Games Trilogy, The Dark Knight, Maleficent and more
Analysis Blog Artists should take a principled stance against Spotify for songwriters The following MBW Op/ed comes from David Israelite, the President and CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association
News Alice In Chains members Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney, Mike Inez and William Duvall sell rights to Round Hill Music Catalog comprises 94 compositions and 159 recordings
Interviews ‘The indie versus major notion is outdated in the digital age.’ MBW’s World Leaders series interviews Marie-Anne Robert, Managing Director of Sony Music Entertainment France
News Primary Wave buys music rights from estates of Layne Staley and Mike Starr of Alice In Chains Publisher to buy stake in Layne Staley’s and Mike Starr’s music publishing catalog, as well as master royalty income stream
News Apple Music cuts free trial for new subscribers from three months to one Six month free trial still offered for customers who purchase eligible audio hardware
Analysis News From Warner and Universal scrapping unrecouped balances to Spotify’s 180m subs: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter