Qanawat Music operates as a music distributor across the Middle East and North Africa
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Author archives: Music Business Worldwide
Spotify is paying $310m to Barcelona for a sponsorship. According to our calculations, that’s more than it’s ever paid an artist in royalties.
Spotify announced its big deal yesterday. It’s worth 89.08 billion streams.
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Universal’s Virgin Music strikes global partnership with Australia’s Mushroom Group
Mushroom appoints Korda Marshall as International Director to co-lead the partnership with Mushroom Label and Publishing’s COO Chris Maund
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Ross Greening upped to SVP, European Regional Administration and Global Copyright/Society Relations, at UMPG
Greening previously held the role of Vice President, Regional European Administration
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Tra’Von Williams joins Joie Manda’s Encore Recordings as VP and Head of Streaming
Encore was launched in November 2021 by music industry veteran Joie Manda
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Catrin Drabble promoted to CFO at Kobalt, as Tom Sansone steps down
Drabble joined Kobalt in 2017
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Trends and analytics platform P-MRC Data changes name to Luminate
Luminate powers the Billboard charts
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PULSE Music Group forms publishing JV with Grammy-winning songwriter Starrah
Starrah will sign and develop her own roster of artists, writers and producers
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Sony Music’s $430m acquisition of AWAL officially cleared by UK competition watchdog
“Having carefully assessed the merger we found that it is not likely to affect competition in a way that will reduce the choice or quality of recorded music available or increase prices.”
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Mathew Knowles joins teaching staff at London music college LCCM – and there’s a full scholarship named after him, too.
US music executive joins LCCM as a visiting lecturer
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