News Exceleration Music acquires rights to Justin Townes Earle recordings Exceleration says that the deal with the estate extends beyond the term of his licensing agreement with Chicago-based Bloodshot Records
News Spotify expands into six new countries, including Venezuela and Iraq Spotify is now available in 184 markets
News Reservoir acquires hit songs by platinum-selling songwriter and producer Dallas Austin Catalog spans several decades and includes hit songs such as Boyz II Men’s Motownphilly
Interviews Meet the executive who was investing in music rights long before it was fashionable. Darren Michaelson, a long-time investor into music, gives his view on the market and where it's going
News Downtown Neighbouring Rights signs Lindsey Buckingham DNR has also integrated its neighbouring rights service with that of FUGA
News Downtown Music Services inks publishing deal with French band AIR The deal covers the band's full back catalogue
Blog ‘Vinyl is magical, my collection will forever be my pride and joy, but it has many parallels with the NFT experience.’ This MBW op/ed comes from Australian tech entrepreneur Max Shand, founder of music tech company Serenade
News TIDAL to launch user-centric royalties system and direct-to-artist payments TIDAL makes raft of announcements around membership tiers and artist payments
News Warner just raised $535 million in debt to buy… something. But what will it be? Could Warner swoop for 300, Concord – or something else entirely?
News Warner Music Group stock slides 9.7% in two days as Bank Of America cuts rating… but WMG is still worth over $25bn Jessica Reif Cohen and Bank of America are pessimistic over future growth for Warner's valuation
News CTM Outlander buys music rights from Grammy-winning songwriter Natalie Hemby Catalog consists of 189 released songs
News Universal Music Group targets ‘name and likeness’ acquisitions in partnership with Authentic Brands Group UMG challenges Primary Wave et al with new acquisitive partnership
News Hipgnosis Songs Fund share price hits all-time high on London Stock Exchange Merck Mercuriadis' company is worth 22.87% more than it was when it hit the stock exchange in 2018
News Spotify acquires Findaway to ‘revolutionize the audiobook space’ Findaway will continue to be led by Founder & CEO Mitch Kroll
News Priya Dewan upped to VP, International Marketing, Asia Pacific and MD, Southeast Asia and Korea at The Orchard New position marks the company’s first Pan-Asian management role