News Indian rapper Badshah was the world’s No.1 songwriter on YouTube last year, says new report Second biggest songwriter on YouTube last year was Tones and I, shows Blokur data
News LiveXLive inks multi-year deal with merchandise platform Merchbar LiveXLive expanded into the merch business in October 2020 by acquiring 100% of Custom Personalization Solutions
Blog Music catalog sales are reaching an all time high. So how will AI music catalogs fit into this new matrix and what is their value? Rory Kenny, co-founder & CEO at Loudly examines the status of music catalogs today....
News Tones and I was the world’s No.1 songwriter on streaming services last year, says new report Blokur's data hands crown to Toni Watson, who wrote 100% of Dance Monkey
Analysis News Queen’s music is making crazy money. Could it be worth over a billion dollars? MBW digs behind the finances of a band with true evergreen appeal
News UK-based indie publisher B-Unique makes raft of new signings New signing Rob Harvey has worked with the likes of Joel Corry and Clean Bandit
Analysis News From Kobalt’s profitability to Scooter Braun’s new job: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories of the past five days – and why they matter
Analysis News Maneskin might be the music industry story of 2021… but they just split from their manager Maneskin now count over 29m monthly listeners on Spotify
Interviews ‘The music industry’s shift to digital in Japan appears to be gaining traction.’ Line Music's Misaki Iki talks MBW through the Japanese market – and its future possibilities
News Songtradr establishes Global Creative division led by Amanda Schupf John Butler also appointed Head of Music Programming and Curation
Interviews ‘The world is growing ever closer – and so are Universal’s global teams.’ Frank Briegmann is the latest interviewee in MBW's World Leaders series
News 340 TuneCore artists have been upstreamed to Believe labels as part of ‘Signed by’ program Artists identified as 'rising stars' are eligible to be upstreamed
News Primary Wave acquires majority stake in music publishing catalog of AWOLNATION’s Aaron Bruno Deal includes the hit Sail, which has over 600 million plays on Spotify alone
News Indian Music Industry launches country’s first International Top 20 Singles Chart based on streaming data Data will be aggregated from Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music
News Ernst Trapp promoted to President, Global E-Commerce and Retail at WEA Trapp will continue to oversee operations at EMP as CEO