News Deezer-backed livestreaming startups Driift and Dreamstage merge, backed by $4.3m investment from Deezer Deezer becomes the largest shareholder of Driift.
News Leila Oliveira promoted to President of Warner Music Brazil Sérgio Affonso to step down after more than 15 years as President to run his own independent label
News Live concert interest in the US nearing pre-Covid levels, new study shows Of those surveyed in February, 36% of US consumers said they planned on attending a concert in the following year, versus 15% who said they attended one concert in the previous year, Luminate said.
News Live events and merch payment solutions company atVenu attracts $30M in funding Frontier Growth, based in Charlotte, NC, has about $1.8 billion assets under management
News Hong Kong’s Andy Lau smashes global live-stream concert record with 350m viewers on ‘China’s TikTok’ To put that into context: 350 million people is around 30 million more than the entire population of the United States
News As live music bounces back after lockdown, Spotify dips a toe into concert ticket business Spotify tests concert ticket sales direct to fans
News Spotify’s online studio Soundtrap launches live collaboration, auto-save tools Soundtrap will showcase the new tools in a Spotify for Artists Masterclass video to be released Wednesday
Interviews NEON16 wants to become the Roc Nation of Latin Music. Here’s Lex Borrero’s masterplan to achieve it. Lex Borrero on Taking Tainy to the top and revolutionizing the Latin music business
News Backstreet Boys livestream concert watched by 45m viewers in China via Tencent’s WeChat app Performance is claimed to be the the highest-attended livestream concert on WeChat by an international artist
News Create Music Group buys majority interest in YouTube channel network The Nations, launches Web3 JV Deal also includes the acquisition of the independent record label Lowly.
News Marc Geiger’s SaveLive has raised $135m from investors including Shamrock Capital Investors include Breyer Capital, Deep Field Asset Management, Raptor Group, and Shamrock Capital
News iHeartMedia’s Lisa Worden to be honored as ‘International Music Person of The Year’ at MUSEXPO Creative Summit 2022 Event set to return with its first in-person edition since 2019
News Samantha Tzovolos appointed Managing Director at Eventim Live Asia Mike Galt also appointed Senior Vice President of Touring for Asia
News Music licensing company PPL reached a record $128m in international collections last year Since 2006 PPL has collected nearly £700m ($951m) of international revenue.
News UK-based live music booking platform GigRealm inks partnership with TuneCore GigRealm launched in the UK in September 2021