The US Department of Justice has hit Alphabet-owned Google with a lawsuit over allegedly monopolizing digital advertising technologies.The DOJ, along…
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Speech and music recognition company SoundHound has closed $25 million in preferred equity financing from a group of unnamed financial…
Erika Montes, former Global Vice President for Artist & Label Relations at SoundCloud, has been named President at Rostrum Records.Montes’…
Concord Music Publishing has appointed Adam Gardiner as Senior Vice President, International Sync, with immediate effect.The UK-based exec joins from…
On Monday (January 23), Spotify CEO Daniel Ek revealed in a memo to staff that the company would be reducing…
Believe-owned DIY music distributor TuneCore has appointed US rapper Papoose as Head of Hip-Hop.In his new role, Papoose will report…
Ultra International Music Publishing has struck a new deal with Atlanta-based songwriter and producer Zaytoven.UIMP has agreed a co-publishing agreement…
It’s official: Justin Bieber has agreed to sell a career-spanning catalog to Blackstone-backed Hipgnosis Songs Capital (HSC) in a nine-figure…
Warner Chappell Music has promoted Ru Ping Gan as its Vice President of Digital, Asia Pacific, to oversee the region’s…
Global Music Rights (GMR), a performing rights society founded by industry veteran Irving Azoff, settled a copyright infringement lawsuit it…
MBW’s World’s Greatest Managers series profiles the best artist managers in the global business. This time out, we catch up…
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Sony‘s iconic Walkman was an accidental megahit. The first iteration of the portable cassette player was designed for Sony co-founder…
Media and Entertainment giant Warner Bros. Discovery is reportedly exploring the sale of its music library, which includes a vast…
As MBW reported yesterday, the total number of on-demand audio streams in the US last year grew handsomely – up…