News Music financing doesn’t have to lead to seller’s remorse. "The outright sale of rights may very well work for some, but it doesn’t sit well with others."
News Beggars Group launches new music supervision business Colourbox Music with Ben Turner and Simon Astall Astall and Turner have worked with directors including Andrea Arnold, Baz Luhrmann, Danny Boyle and David Lynch
News Michael LoBiondo named Head of Business Development at Warner Chappell Music LoBiondo previously worked at music and artist development company mtheory
News Warner Chappell Music extends publishing deal with The Weeknd songwriter Belly Warner Chappell has acquired 50% of Belly’s songwriting catalog as part of the deal.
News Universal Music Group partners with Simon Cowell’s Syco to offer X Factor Israel winner a record deal News comes nine months after Cowell bought out Sony Music from Syco Entertainment
News Hipgnosis acquires 105 songs from Grammy-winner Andrew Watt in eight-figure deal MBW estimates that the deal cost Hipgnosis somewhere between $45m and $75m
Analysis Is a reckoning coming to the way collection societies spend songwriters’ money? Stat Of The Week: Why new data from PRS For Music and GEMA may raise alarm on Wall Street
News Music-making app Rapchat raises $2.3m led by Sony Music Entertainment and VC firm Adjacent Platform has 7 million registered users
News $1bn-backed Tempo Music gets buying again – as its new CEO says it has a ‘best-in-class portfolio’ After parting ways with former CEO earlier this year, Tempo makes announcement of its acquisitions
News From Downtown’s $400m copyright sale to Tencent’s trouble in China: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
Analysis Goldman Sachs: Universal is worth over $50bn, and global music streaming revenues will rise $3bn this year Latest Music In The Air report has been obtained by MBW - and it'll put a spring in the industry's step
News BMG is speeding up payments for over 20,000 songwriters (which is also good news for KKR) Songwriters will be paid within 60 days rather than 90
News Tencent could be hit with $1.5bn fine and forced to sell two music apps in China (report) Reuters reports that anti-competitive watchdogs could force TME to sell off Kugou and Kuwo
News Tuned Global teams with fitness brand Psycle London to develop home workout music streaming app Company to power playlist app for home fitness brand’s 70+ instructors
News Blackstone is buying eOne Music from Hasbro in $385m cash deal Chris Taylor to run eOne Music as a standalone company under Blackstone ownership