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
News MBW’s Weekly Roundup: Michael Gudinski, SoundCloud, Universal, TIDAL, Anghami The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Electronic music veteran Nick Halkes strikes JV with Sentric Music Group and takes on A&R consultancy role Halkes co-founded XL Recordings and launched the Positiva label in the past
News Partisan Records launches new joint venture label section1 Los Angeles-based label launched by Brontë Jane (VP of A&R at Third Side Music) alongside Chris Robbins and Tom Wironen of Friendly Announcer management
News Warner Chappell France teams with songwriter Benjamin Biolay’s publishing company Bambi Rose Warner Chappell will represent Biolay’s catalog and future works as part of the deal
Interviews Is Timbaland about to transform the music production business (again)? Gary Marella on the launch of Beatclub, and how it plans to rival the likes of Splice