Analysis Blog ‘This agreement guarantees a raise for CDs, vinyl and downloads, but we know that songwriters need much more to succeed – they need fairness.’ This op/ed comes from David Israelite, the President & CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA)
News Record labels and publishers ink major settlement, moving from 9.1 cents to 12 cents per track for US mechanical royalties on physical sales Agreement reached to settle rate negotiation in the US
News Is TikTok (or ByteDance) slowly morphing into a record company? Evidence is building that such a description might one day fit...
News Quincy Jones’ OneOf teams with Warner-backed virtual concerts firm Wave to launch NFT for metaverse artist Teflon Sega 'Metaverse-born musical artist and producer' Teflon Sega has over 356,000 monthly Spotify listeners
News Amazon Music exec Sahas Malhotra joins JioSaavn as CEO Malhotra was most recently Director of Amazon Music in India
News Universal Music Publishing Group inks global deal with Glass Animals lead singer Dave Bayley In 2020, Glass Animals released the RIAA Triple Platinum hit Heat Waves, solely written and produced by Bayley
Interviews ‘I love the pressure, I love the deals, I love the win.’ Adrian Sykes interviews Atlantic Records’ Rich Castillo about his experiences, ambitions, passions and gripes within the UK music industry…
News Snapchat, which now reaches over 600m monthly users, inks Augmented Reality partnership with Live Nation Festival attendees will be able to use AR to 'try on merch, find friends' and more
News After TikTok and SoundCloud, Tencent Music is a distributor now too TME has already distributed and promoted more than 150,000 songs to overseas platforms
News FUGA strikes distribution deal with Stockholm-based indie label YEAR0001 Ebba Guhnby also named Business Development Manager for the Nordics at FUGA
Interviews ‘I would like to see more women brought into the boardroom. We have come a long way, but still have a lot of work to do.’ In this feature, Cris Falcão, Ingrooves Music Group's Managing Director in Brazil, tells us about her career in the music industry, challenges in the market, and her objectives for 2022
News Could one of these startups become the new TikTok or SoundCloud? Meet Techstars Music class of 2022.
News 135,000 artists are now getting paid through SoundCloud’s Fan-Powered Royalties platform Platform pledges to match 100% of revenue earned by independent artists on Friday, April 29
News Having paid $222m to artists in 2021, TuneCore has now surpassed total payouts of $2.5bn Artists using the platform have achieved 500bn streams and 700m downloads
Interviews News ‘Web3 will be a building block for every musician in the future.’ Justin Blau tells MBW how Royal wants to be positioned in the music business, and gives us his predictions for the NFT space...