Interviews Meet the Romanian record label with 2bn annual streams – and major global ambitions Global Records is looking to add further international expansion, via serious investment, in 2021
Interviews News As Round Hill’s market share of US hits climbs, company tells music biz: Don’t call us a check-book publisher Josh Gruss walks MBW through the surprising news that a catalog acquisition company keeps cropping up on hit radio market share charts
News Global Music Rights partners with Entercom Communications in the US Deal allows Entercom to perform GMR’s catalog of songs across all of its platforms
News Sony Music Publishing inks worldwide partnership with South Africa’s Gallo Music Publishers Catalog includes works by multi Grammy-award winning South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo and reggae star Lucky Dube
News Warner buys indie label Zhara Music, launches Atlantic Records Russia Atlantic Records Russia will be headed by co-founder Bahh Tee as General Producer
News YMU Group launches YMU Arts, names Jori Teplitzky as Managing Director and Justin Blau Director of Strategy New division will be exploring NFT-related opportunities for its clients
News Bob Valentine promoted to President of Concord, Kent Hoskins named CFO He will continue to work with CEO Scott Pascucci to guide the company’s overall business strategy
News Irving Azoff buys again, as Iconic snaps up Linda Ronstadt recorded music rights Artist has sold more than 100m records worldwide
News BMG inks global partnership with Montreux Jazz Festival Deal includes a three-part documentary series celebrating the history of the music festival
News Azi Eftekhari elected new Chair of UK’s Entertainment Retailers Association Eftekhari takes over from James Morton of Sky
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