News NetEase Cloud Music and Merlin extend strategic partnership in China Original agreement was established in 2018
Uncategorized Jim Griffin, a former Geffen Records and Warner Music exec, joins Pex as Vice President of Digital Rights He has also been a consultant and advisor to Nokia, WIPO and SoundExchange
Analysis News Universal Music Group generated $8.4bn in 2020… and spent over $1.7bn on catalog acquisitions and artist advances Advances and catalog expenditure figure was more than triple the equivalent number from 2019
News Confirmed: Universal Music Group set to go public on Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange this year Vivendi to spin out 60% of Univeral Music Group equity to shareholders ahead of IPO in the Netherlands
News Triller: We don’t need Universal Music Group to run our business Triller denies withholding artist payments from Universal. Universal says Triller's claims are "removed from reality"
News Universal Music Group pulls catalog from Triller, says TikTok rival has ‘shamefully withheld payments’ to artists World's biggest rights-holder takes down huge catalog from video platform
Company: NetEase Cloud MusicStreaming Service NetEase Cloud Music is a subsidiary of NetEase Inc, which was founded by William Ding in China
News Kuke, a classical music platform from China, raises $50m in US IPO Kuke Music is a provider of classical music licensing, a subscription music platform and education services in China
News Alibaba to close streaming platform Xiami Music next month Platform was bought by Jack Ma's Alibaba in 2013
News MBW’s Weekly Roundup: Lucian Grainge, Tencent, Spotify, Beatport, TikTok The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Sir Lucian Grainge: ‘Putting music’s power to work for good may have been more important this year than it’s ever been.’ "There’s no question that 2020 was a year of struggle and tragedies, but it was also a year of courage and heroes."
Interviews Troy Carter: ‘The music industry has to change the business model; it’s as simple as that.’ The Q&A founder and ex-Spotify exec joins the MBW podcast to talk independent artists – and the future of the business
Analysis The independent artist market is exploding in China – with NetEase and Tencent battling to woo the best indie acts Stat Of The Week: How indie acts are central to the strategies of China's two biggest streaming music providers
News Warner Music’s Greater China boss, Andy Ma, abruptly exits company Warner is understood to have told staff that the sudden exit of Ma is due to "family reasons".
News Following Tencent investment, A&R platform Instrumental launches $13m fund to invest in independent artists Fund will be deployed immediately to artists with qualifying tracks, as identified by the company’s platform