News From Reservoir’s $788m valuation to Spotify and Warner’s canoodling: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Daniel Ek: 3 things we learned from Spotify’s boss on the company’s Q4 earnings call Spotify published its financial results Q4 2020 on Wednesday (February 3)
People: Charles CaldasPartner Charles Caldas is a Partner in Exceleration Music and the former CEO of Merlin
Company: Instrumental Instrumental is an A&R platform that sold a minority stake in its business to Tencent in 2020
Interviews How East Goes Global is turning US and UK artists into social media stars in China Andrew Spalter explains how, with the right tools, China offers a vast audience to many Western artists
News MBW’s Weekly Roundup: SoundCloud, 0207 Def Jam, China, Big Hit, Simon Robson The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News TuneCore partners with Spotify rival Gaana in India Gaana announced in August that it had surpassed 185m monthly active users
News New Spotify patent sheds more light on potential karaoke mode – including auto-tuned vocals "Users sometimes desire to sing along with the media being played," says patent which was granted earlier this month
News Amuse co-founder and Director of Product Andreas Ahlenius exits company 'It's been a challenging and exciting journey but we managed to build something quite big.'
News Spotify appears to be building a karaoke feature – just as Twitch shuts down Sings Karaoke app Twitch Sings to shut on January 1, 2021
News Modern Sky inks sub-publishing deal with The Royalty Network for Chinese catalog in North America Catalog will be overseen and managed by Modern Sky UK
News Japan looking to restrict use of Chinese apps, including TikTok Lawmakers looking at restricting apps over security concerns
Analysis 3 reasons why it might make sense… for Apple to buy TikTok Here, we explore the current backlash in the US against ByteDance-owned video sharing app, TikTok
News As pressure mounts on TikTok, could Chinese parent ByteDance cash in on the company in the US? Keep your eye on this one...