News PortalDisc App is a new a ‘hyper-localized and hyper-targeted’ music streaming service in Chile Platform offers 130,000 Chilean songs from 300 national labels and more than 7,000 independent artists,
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 Tencent Music gets new CEO as Cussion Pang takes new role Zhu Liang (Ross Liang) appointed as Chief Executive Officer
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
Analysis Blog NFTs: What songwriters and music publishers need to know 'Songwriters and copyright owners should be vigilant about NFT sales that implicate their work,' writes National Music Publishers' Association president & CEO, David Israelite
News Fortnite to host Kaskade concert in collaboration with Monstercat Concert takes place at Fortnite's Party Royale Main Stage on March 26
News Sales of music, merch and tickets through artist website hosting platform Bandzoogle surpass $75m Bandzoogle members earned $12.7m through their websites in 2020 alone
News YMU Group launches YMU Arts, names Jori Teplitzky as Managing Director and Justin Blau Director of Strategy New division will be exploring NFT-related opportunities for its clients
News Big Hit Global CEO Lenzo Yoon on K-Pop, BTS, their fans and the future of the global entertainment industry Big Hit Entertainment Global CEO Lenzo Yoon delivered a speech this week for SXSW Online
News Sony’s latest Unreal Engine project is an immersive music experience for RCA artist Tate McRae Immersive video is powered by Epic Games' Unreal Engine
News Ticketing platform DICE launches direct-to-fan merch service Company says that it is partnering with merchandise specialists to offer the new service
News NetEase and Sony Music join $15m investment round in live-streaming platform Maestro Los Angeles-based tech startup takes total investment raised to date to $22 million
News Big Hit invests $3.6m in Supertone, an AI firm that just cloned a dead superstar’s voice Startup claims to be able to create "a hyper-realistic and expressive voice that [is not] distinguishable from real humans"
News Former Republic President Charlie Walk partners with LiveXLive, planning to launch joint record label, music publishing operation Partnership with Walks' Music Mastery company to include joint efforts to create a record label, music publishing and artist management
News Grammy-winning artist and songwriter Jacob Collier renews publishing deal with Concord Deal includes Collier’s full catalog and future works