Analysis News HYBE, home of BTS, surpassed $1bn in revenues in 2021 – the year it acquired Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings HYBE spent $1 billion on Braun's company in April 2021, and has seen a 58% jump in annual revenues
Analysis The major music companies are in a race to hire the best Web3 talent – before media’s biggest companies beat them to it Interesting developments at Universal, Sony, and Warner in recent weeks hint at the impact Web3 will have on music in the months ahead
News SoundCloud launches artist-signing JV with Coach K and P’s Solid Foundation Management Coach K and P have invested an undisclosed amount in SoundCloud
Analysis News Kanye West just sold 10,000 Stem Players in 3 days… as he claims he rejected a $100m deal from Apple One of the most interesting release experiments in modern music is about to take place via Ye's Donda 2
News Gülce Özyeşilpinar promoted into expanded role as GM, Warner Music Turkey and VP, Marketing, Eastern Mediterranean Özyeşilpınar will take on responsibility for marketing across Cyprus, Greece and Israel
Analysis News If you wanted to know why Sony Music bought AWAL… this is why The signing of girl in red to Columbia could be a key case study in the Sony-AWAL story
News Peloton releases video game ‘Lanebreak’, with Warner Music Group as a launch partner The first artist themed levels to launch on Lanebreak are two Warner-distributed artists: David Bowie and David Guetta.
Analysis News YouTube is making close to $100m from advertising revenues every day YouTube generated over $28 billion across the course of 2021
Analysis News SoundCloud’s annual revenues topped $218m in 2020 – and it’s been making bold moves ever since MBW gets our hands on SoundCloud's results from 2020, and they reveal a 31% annual rise in revenues
News Grammy-winning songwriter Jordan Reynolds sells catalog to Warner Chappell, launches brokerage to help other writers do the same thing Reynolds has written six No.1 songs across three genres
Interviews ‘Artists really have to see Web3 as more than just a glorified fan club for the 21st Century.’ RCRDSHP founder Obie Fernandez on the future of the NFT market and the potential impact that Web3 could have on the music industry...
News Sting sells song catalog to Universal for $300m+ Sting has sold more than 100 million albums throughout his career
Interviews ‘The indie versus major notion is outdated in the digital age.’ MBW’s World Leaders series interviews Marie-Anne Robert, Managing Director of Sony Music Entertainment France
News Apple Music cuts free trial for new subscribers from three months to one Six month free trial still offered for customers who purchase eligible audio hardware
News KKR bought a music catalog from Kobalt for $1.1bn. Now it’s turning it into bonds. Kroll looks set to give offering an 'A' rating, as the growing financialization of music continues