News MBW’s Weekly Roundup: Spotify, Hipgnosis, Grammys, YouTube, Universal x Boomplay The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Warner’s ADA Latin inks global deals with several prominent Latin music labels and artists Among them are EDM veteran Toy Selectah’s Worldwide Records and Los Angeles indie label Cosmica Records
News YouTube’s TikTok rival Shorts arrives in the US Launch partners include Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Merlin, 300 Entertainment, Kobalt
News How many artists are generating $50k+ a year on Spotify? Over 13,000. New Loud & Clear site sees Spotify pull back the curtain on the truth about streaming economics
News Distiller Music Group signs global deal with Believe Global agreement includes new releases and back catalog
News Universal and music streaming service Boomplay expand license to cover 47 countries across Africa New markets include South Africa, Ethiopia, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon and Senegal
News NFTs for copyrights: Why non-fungible tokens could transform who gets paid from music rights, and how Ditto Music's Bluebox project is selling partial ownership of two copyrights wrapped up into NFTs this week
News Danny Strick joins CMNTY Culture as a Senior Advisor Strick will support CMNTY Culture across recorded music, music publishing, film/ TV, and real estate
News Anthony Martini named CEO of Royalty Exchange Most recently, Martini founded independent record label Commission Records
News Spotify reinstates K-Pop tracks from Kakao Entertainment as companies reach global licensing deal Content is also available in South Korea for the first time
News Spanish authors’ society SGAE re-admitted to CISAC following reforms SGAE was temporarily kicked out of CISAC in May 2019
Interviews ‘Streaming data files are getting bigger and bigger – they are not manageable manually anymore.’ Reprtoir's CEO, Dominique Rottet, explains how his company's software is benefitting labels and music publishers
News Geoff Sawyer, Red Bull’s ex-Director of Global Music Services, joins UTA as agent in games division Sawyer to foster collaborations between music clients and gaming industry
News Tom Foley promoted to SVP, Worldwide Portfolio Management and Analysis at Sony Music Publishing He previously held the position of Vice President, North American Royalty Administration in Nashville
Analysis ‘The death of the artist’? Why Big Hit and BTS just raised the alarm on the record industry’s future. Why Big Hit's recent investment is symptomatic of a wider, potentially worrying, trend for major record companies