Interviews ‘We have to understand: without the song, there is no artist.’ Rodney Jerkins, aka Darkchild, joins MBW's World's Greatest Songwriters series
News Ethiopia Habtemariam: ‘The music business is changing all the time. If you’re not willing to innovate, you’re gonna be left in the dust.’ Motown's Ethiopia Habtemariam on hip-hop's explosion, ego in the music business – and Motown's new age
Interviews How Songtradr is simplifying sync – and aiming to become the definitive B2B music licensing platform Songtradr founder and CEO, Paul Wiltshire, on the sync industry and his company's future
Interviews ‘Music is significantly undervalued – people are thinking about it in the wrong way.’ Kobalt's Willard Ahdritz talks publishing, major record companies, and the true worth of the business today
News The music industry is tackling streaming fraud with a pointless ‘Code’. It won’t work… but these ideas might. Penalties for artists, penalties for staff, more funding – why wasn't any of this in the industry's own policies?
News The music industry just failed to fix streaming fraud with a toothless ‘Code of Conduct’ The industry has come together to pledge... nothing new, really
Interviews JioSaavn: ‘We’re doing for music what Netflix did for movies.’ The service's CEO, Rishi Malhotra, discusses his company's uniqueness – and the power of parent company Jio
News TikTok parent hires ex-Deezer exec to run music biz relations in Latin America Executive was previously Head of Music Industry Relations Americas at Deezer
News Charles Caldas to step down as CEO of Merlin at end of 2019 Caldas to exit role after more than 12 years
News LyricFind: It’s possible that we ‘unknowingly’ pinched Genius lyrics for Google search results Statement addresses claims made in Wall Street Journal article
News Merlin paid indie labels and distributors $845m in the past year, showing strong growth Merlin has now paid indies more than $2bn from digital services since being founded
News Pulse Music Group co-CEO Scott Cutler joins NMPA Board He is also a multi-platinum songwriter and record producer
Analysis The major record labels are signing over 50 artists a month. Is that too many? The majors are inking deals with over 600 artists every year
News Interscope just signed Ann Marie. Don’t expect Atlantic Records to be delighted about it… Who's your favorite: Ann Marie, or Anne-Marie?
Analysis How much money is the US music publishing industry making? A billion dollars more than it was 4 years ago. New stats from the NMPA, analyzed by MBW, reveal some surprising commercial facts