MBW gets our hands on SoundCloud’s results from 2020, and they reveal a 31% annual rise in revenues
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Author archives: Music Business Worldwide
Jon Glass and Alasdair McMullan join SoundExchange Board of Directors
Glass and McMullan will lend business development expertise and legal acumen to the organization
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Spotify and Amazon each considering takeover bids for UK podcast firm Audioboom (report)
Audioboom’s shows are downloaded more than 116m times each month
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Labels awarded $83m in lawsuit against operator of stream-ripping sites
Over 300m individuals in the US used the sites from October 2017 to May 2021
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Oz McGuire named VP of A&R and Business Development at Symphonic Distribution
McGuire was most recently Director, Label and Artist Partnerships at Ingrooves
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Grammy-winning songwriter Jordan Reynolds sells catalog to Warner Chappell, launches brokerage to help other writers do the same thing
Reynolds has written six No.1 songs across three genres
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‘Artists really have to see Web3 as more than just a glorified fan club for the 21st-century.’
RCRDSHP founder Obie Fernandez on the future of the NFT market and the potential impact that Web3 could have on the music industry…
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Warner Music Group launches Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Institute
Institute to offer range of educational programming from third-party experts and an Innovation Lab for employees
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From Sting selling his song catalog to the majors generating $20bn last year: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter
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Kristina ‘Red’ Tanner promoted to Partner at Activist Artists Management
Chris Ruff has also joined the company as Head of Global Marketing
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