‘We are thrilled to have renewed our deals with both TME and NetEase Cloud Music,’ said Sylvain Delange, Believe’s Managing Director, APAC
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‘I love the pressure, I love the deals, I love the win.’
Adrian Sykes interviews Atlantic Records’ Rich Castillo about his experiences, ambitions, passions and gripes within the UK music industry…
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Snapchat, which now reaches over 600m monthly users, inks Augmented Reality partnership with Live Nation
Festival attendees will be able to use AR to ‘try on merch, find friends’ and more
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BMG acquires Primal Scream song rights
BMG has acquired a 50% stake in the song interests of Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes and the late Robert Young, together with their neighbouring rights
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After TikTok and SoundCloud, Tencent Music is a distributor now too
TME has already distributed and promoted more than 150,000 songs to overseas platforms
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The Weeknd signs publishing pact with Universal – and he’s thrown new recordings and merch into the package too
The Weeknd has sold more than 75 million albums.
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Could the Music Catalog Rights Boom Generate Windfalls for Non-Superstars?
YM&U Executive Manager, Alex Frankel, on tech that could expand the catalog rush to smaller artists and songwriters
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FUGA strikes distribution deal with Stockholm-based indie label YEAR0001
Ebba Guhnby also named Business Development Manager for the Nordics at FUGA
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‘If your management plan is to try and get a record to blow up on TikTok… you don’t have a plan.’
Crush Management founder Jonathan Daniel recalls bringing emo to the masses and reflects on 20 years at the top
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Bryan Kehn promoted to Vice President of Media at Republic Records
Kehn first joined Republic Records in 2013
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