Interviews Hartwig Masuch thinks the music industry is putting too much of its money in the wrong places. The BMG boss opens up on frontline vs catalog investment, and much more
News Songtradr enters wellness space, partners with music for wellbeing label Myndstream Songtradr has partnered with the mindfulness music label for sync services across the platform
News From Universal’s new board to Warner’s David Bowie partnership: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up The biggest stories of the past five days – and why they matter
News TikTok owner ByteDance readies new music streaming app in China (report) ByteDance reportedly started work on the app back in 2019
News JioSaavn and Merlin ink expanded global music licensing partnership Deal marks the first renewal between the two parties since regional music streaming service Saavn merged with India’s JioMusic
News Downtown Music Services signs five LoFi labels to roster The five labels' releases generate over 500 million streams each year
Analysis News Vincent Bolloré is about to own $7bn-plus of Universal shares… and other things we learned from UMG’s new prospectus Prospectus published ahead of UMG's listing on the Amsterdam stock exchange on September 21
News Cinq Music parent GoDigital acquires music finance company Sound Royalties in ‘high eight-figure’ deal Jason Peterson's company makes major move for US-based financing company
News Reservoir inks global deal with Joni Mitchell Mitchell has released a total of 19 studio albums, and has received a total of nine Grammy Awards
News Warner’s ADA Worldwide reveals new leadership structure, appointing heads of US and International Marcus Siskind named Head of US, and Adriana Sein appointed Head of International
News Bobby Ju named Managing Director of Sony Music Korea Ju will oversee the company’s operations in the country
News After announcing their first studio album in 40 years, ABBA surpass 80,000 UK pre-orders in just three days ABBA score Universal Music UK’s biggest ever album pre-order
News African Music service Mdundo hits 8.7m Monthly Active Users, inks telco partnership with MTN Nigeria Mdundo listed on the Danish stock exchange (the Nasdaq First North Growth Market) in September 2020
Analysis YouTube Music surpasses 50 million subscribers Major milestone crossed by Spotify's rival service, across YouTube Music and YouTube Premium
News Tencent axes all exclusive label deals in China following antitrust clampdown Tencent published a statement on WeChat announcing that it has written to all "upstream copyright" holders to end their exclusive agreements