Timeline of key milestones and stats released by Apple for its song recognition app, Shazam
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Author archives: Music Business Worldwide
Concord on board as A&R Awards sponsor
Global indie will sponsor Pop/R&B category at this year’s A&R Awards
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From TikTok’s music patent to BMI scrapping sale plans… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
Our biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip
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From TikTok’s music patent to BMI scrapping sale plans… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
Our biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip
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NetEase Cloud Music added 872,000 paying subs in Q2, far less than Tencent Music’s 2.5m
NCM and TME combined grew by fewer subs than Spotify in Q2
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Glassnote hires Alison Dannenberg Frost as Head of Sync and Licensing
Alison Dannenberg Frost joins indie label, Glassnote Records, as Head of Sync and Licensing. She will work out of their Los Angeles office.
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Kobalt to launch NFT collection, becoming ‘first global music publisher to release a set of fully licensed direct-to-fan NFTs’
Music lyric NFT collection is called An Electro Revival, in collaboration with Ghanaian visual artist, Afroscope
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Allison Hamamura to head ONErpm’s Los Angeles office as GM
ONErpm has also promoted Los Angeles-based Joseph Adulaimi to VP of A&R
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Beggars Group profits jumped 55% in 2021, as US rights to Adele’s first 3 albums reverted back to XL Recordings
UK-based company turned over GBP £80 million last year
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As new Shazam charts launch in 17 countries including Nigeria and Ghana, Apple Music hails app’s role in discovery of African music globally
Shazam was acquired by Apple for $400 million in 2018
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