News Mathew Knowles, father of Beyoncé and Solange, joins African music streaming startup MePlaylist as President, Global Marketing and Communications Appointment follows his investment in the startup earlier this year
News Sony’s The Orchard partners with Sony/ATV to offer publishing services Harry Nach, Kiddtetoon, G Herbo and Summer Salt among the first to use The Orchard’s publishing services
News Award-winning songwriter David Hodges sells copyrights to Kobalt Capital’s fund Hodges also continues long-time partnership with Kobalt Music Publishing for future works
News BMG Production Music makes several promotions and new hires in the UK and US Scott Doran, Caspar Kedros and Sam Delves promoted to Senior Global Creative roles
News Triller inks multi-territory licensing deal with ICE Deal for the musical works represented by the ICE Core
News Concord Music Publishing signs Robert Glasper Deal is part of Concord Music Publishing’s creative venture with Loma Vista Recordings
News Amazon Music partners with Universal, Warner to exclusively offer streaming albums in ‘better than CD quality’ Ultra HD "With this partnership, we are building upon that promise by upgrading existing recordings to make the listening experience even better, and preserving artistic legacy for future generations."
News Warner inks distribution deal with Bollywood specialist Tips Music in India Label’s repertoire will be distributed locally by Warner Music India and internationally by ADA
News Twitch, still unlicensed by majors, launches rights-cleared music via deals with indie distributors and labels Soundtrack by Twitch will have more than a million tracks available from over 30 music companies
Interviews How Better Noise is expanding beyond music – to help its artists, and recovering addicts Better Noise's MD in Europe, Dan Waite, on the "socially conscious" company's multimedia strategy and new movie, Sno Babies
News New Spotify patent reveals company’s 3D Audio ambitions MBW discovers new filing that shows Spotify is building in-house tech that responds to a listener's environment
News Kobalt extends worldwide publishing agreement with Ozuna 'We are beyond thrilled to have Ozuna continue to be part of the Kobalt family.'
News With fresh cash injection, Hipgnosis has raised over $500m in two months "We have made a tremendous impact on the songwriting community."
News Guillaume Quelet joins Believe as Global Licensing Director Exec worked with Sony Music Entertainment in New York prior to joining Believe
News Amuse revenues grew 209% in 2019, but firm posted $11m operating loss Distribution company's net revenues hit $9.5m last year, reveals fiscal report