News Estate of Mexican superstar Juan Gabriel inks global deal with Virgin Music US Latin, extends worldwide publishing deal with UMPG The estates has also extended its agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG)
News Warner expands into Bollywood music via strategic partnership with India’s Jjust Music First joint release to be English language pop track from Tiger Shroff
Analysis Blog With touring costs spiralling, artists mustn’t dismiss how much they’re wasting on FX payments. Voly founder Ian Flanagan reveals how much a major league artist could have saved on their tour had they shopped around
News AMRA, with annual revenues of over $100m, promotes Robin Davies to COO and Honey Onile-Ere to General Counsel AMRA says its next phase will "transcend the industry with even faster accounting, more accurate payments, more value, and increased transparency"
Analysis News Once again, nearly 98% of 18-to-49-year-olds in the US didn’t watch the Grammys on Sunday The 2021 Superbowl's live TV audience was more than ten times the size of the 2022 Grammys
News As vinyl sales soar, European pressing plant Record Industry and Bertus Distribution join forces The combined entity says that its pressing capacity will be "practically doubled" to around 25 million units per year
Interviews ‘We’ve never sat there and slagged off a competitor. If you get to that stage, you’ve lost it already.’ Caroline Elleray and Mark Gale made their name as A&R extraordinaires working with artists like Coldplay and Little Simz at Universal Music Publishing. Now the married couple are launching their own venture, Second Songs.
News Partisan Records launches publishing division Left Music, headed up by Craig Michie Company has also signed a global administration agreement with Sony Music Publishing UK.
Analysis News An MBW reader just blew open the Spotify fake artists story. Here’s what they have to say. This is an email you're gonna want to read
Interviews ‘I believe that today we are in a place where Indian music can cross over globally.’ Times Music COO, Mandar Thakur, discusses the country's industry as part of our World Leaders series
News Sony Music Group opens new Southeast Asia HQ in Singapore New office will be home to Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music Publishing (SMP) and The Orchard
Analysis News ASCAP’s revenues grew by just $8m in 2021, and couldn’t catch BMI’s annual collections PRO blames fall in international collections on "business closures and the lack of vaccinations" in certain non-US territories
News Metaverse platform Oorbit raises $5m. Names Mark Cuban and deadmau5 as investors Participants in the round include Investor and reality TV 'Shark' Mark Cuban, deadmau5 and HOF Capital
News Music’s next big-money buyout will be the Middle East’s Qanawat Music, sources tell MBW Qanawat Music operates as a music distributor across the Middle East and North Africa
News Universal’s Virgin Music strikes global partnership with Australia’s Mushroom Group Mushroom appoints Korda Marshall as International Director to co-lead the partnership with Mushroom Label and Publishing’s COO Chris Maund