Author archives: Music Business Worldwide

‘What is currently an opaque black box of song royalties, needs to be transformed into a glass box.’

The following op/ed comes from Annabella Coldrick, Chief Executive of the UK’s Music Managers Forum
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The Chainsmokers are giving away a share of their streaming royalties for free, via Justin Blau’s NFT platform Royal

Royal says The Chainsmokers will be making 5,000 NFTs that represent a collective 1% of their new album’s streaming royalties
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Snapchat owner sued by Swiss collection society for ‘refusing to pay authors and publishers for music on its platform’

SESAC applaud’s SUISA’s efforts to take Snap Inc to task over alleged copyright infringement
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As rap continues to rule the charts in Germany, Apple Music expands Charlie Sloth’s Fire in the Booth freestyle series into the market

Fire In The Booth Germany will be presented by DJ Maxxx
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‘Your ambition for an artist has to match their ambition for themselves.’

Lanre Gaba was promoted to one of the most important positions at Atlantic Records – Co-President of Black Music – earlier this year. She’s paid her dues to get there.
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Sony Music Publishing teams with Domain Capital to acquire career-spanning catalog from hit songwriter Ashley Gorley. MBW’s sources put the deal at $40m.

Gorley had three cuts featured on the standard version of the biggest album in the US last year, Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album
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