News Sony pumps another $200m into Fortnite maker Epic Games as part of $1bn funding round MBW estimates that Sony now owns between 2% and 2.5% in Epic Games
News Universal is going public in Amsterdam this year: Spin-out plan green-lit by Vivendi shareholders Vivendi held an Extraordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting in Paris today and approved the plan
Analysis ‘The death of the artist’? Why Big Hit and BTS just raised the alarm on the record industry’s future. Why Big Hit's recent investment is symptomatic of a wider, potentially worrying, trend for major record companies
News Gaana CEO Prashan Agarwal set to exit Indian streaming company MBW's sources tell us that Gaana boss is out at Times and Tencent-owned company
News MBW’s Weekly Roundup: Vivendi, Beach Boys, Big Hit x UMG, Warner x Rotana, MLC The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
Interviews Merck Mercuriadis faces the future… and stares down his critics MBW asked the Hipgnosis CEO and founder to respond to criticisms from his harshest detractors. He said yes.
Analysis News Universal’s Amsterdam adventure will leave even slender shareholders of Vivendi loaded Vivendi is planning to distribute 60% equity in UMG to its shareholders. Here's how the math works out.
People: Andy MaCEO Andy Ma joined WMG in 2011, working his way up to be named CEO of Warner Music Greater China in 2020
News MBW’s Weekly Roundup: Universal, Sun Records, DistroKid, Spotify, Big Hit The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
Company: YG EntertainmentMusic Publisher, Record Label, Management Company, Talent Agent YG Entertainment, founded in 1996, has worked with BLACKPINK and Psy
Company: SoundCloudDistributor, Streaming Service SoundCloud is a music streaming service founded in 2007 by Eric Wahlforss and Alexander Ljung
News Universal buys Bob Dylan publishing rights, acquiring catalog worth hundreds of millions of dollars Expert industry sources tells MBW that Dylan's catalog would command a pricetag somewhere in the region of $250m to $400m in the current frothy music rights M&A marketplace
News Warner is signing double the number of artists via AI-driven A&R tool Sodatone than it did last year. Now, it’s hired a global head of Data Science. Data science expert Dr. Kobi Abayomi will lead analytics globally across WMG