Digital’s overall share of sales now stands at 78.6% of the market, while vinyl sales grew 49.5% in the first six months of 2021
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Author archives: Music Business Worldwide
The Weeknd manager Wassim “Sal” Slaiby honored in Fuse Media’s Future Middle Eastern History Class of 2021
The Future History series celebrates positive, proactive and emerging leaders
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Hipgnosis buys catalog from Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie
Catalog includes 11 No.1s and 47 Top 10s
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From Sony’s Q2 revenue growth to Primary Wave’s stake in the Prince estate: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up
The biggest stories of the past five days – and why they matter
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Major labels and publishers hit Charter Communications with $400m+ copyright infringement lawsuit
Charter is one of the largest ISPs in the US
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After expanding into Asia, CTS Eventim to spend over $200m on new arena in Italy
Venue will be Italy’s largest multipurpose arena
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Dan Goldberg joins sports apparel brand Fanatics as SVP, Music and Entertainment Development
Goldberg formerly spent 12 years at Warner Music Group
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India-based record label Venus Music, acquired by Believe in 2019, rebrands as Ishtar
First project under the new brand is from Indian playback singer Mamta Sharma
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UK government launches $1bn insurance scheme for live events forced to cancel due to Covid
Scheme will be available from September 2021 and run until the end of September 2022
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Primary Wave buys stake in Prince estate, encompassing publishing, master recording income and more
Company says it now holds ‘the largest percentage interest in the estate’
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