THURSDAY 12.13.18
Music Business News From Around The Web
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Author archives: Bruce Houghton
Tencent Music [TME] Ends First Trading Day Up 7.7%
After opening at $14.10, Tencent Music ended its first day of trading Wednesday up $1.00 at $14.00 or 7.69% above it’s $13.00 target IPO asking price. At one point in the day, the stock was trading at $14.75. 60,190,565 shares of TME traded hands on Wednesday. The full Tencent offering…
Alison Wenham Steps Down As CEO of WIN, A2IM CEO Burgess Offers Praise
Alison Wenham is stepping down as the CEO of The Worldwide Independent Network (WIN) after 12 years with the global independent music industry trade group. Prior to joining WIN full time in 2016, Wenham was the CEO of the UK’s Association of Independent Music (AIM), the organisation she started in…
Business Of Indie: FUGA Expands • Fearless Names Co-Presidents • Varèse Sarabande Turns 40 • More
In this new edition of The Business Of Indie, Amsterdam based music distributor FUGA expands, indie label Fearless promotes two to co-presidents and legendary soundtrack label Varèse Sarabande turns 40. Remember when you thought you’d never live to see 40? Like Hypebot’s More News section, The Business Of Indie is…
‘She Is The Music’ Global Database Launches Of Women Working in Music [How To Sign Up]
She Is The Music, the non-profit founded by Alicia Keys, Jody Gerson, Global Chairman and CEO, Universal Music Publishing Group and others has launched the first global of women working in music. She Is The Music has plans for seminars, mentorship programs and more. But the database of Women Working…
CD Baby DIY Musician Conference 2019 Moves To Austin
CD Baby’s DIY Musician Conference is moving from Nashville to Austin " to connect with a fresh community of musicians in another deeply musical city." Presentations, workshops, mentoring, jam rooms and more will be held at the downtown Hilton August 16-18, 2019. “CD Baby pays close attention to what our…
Tunefind Names Top TV, Film Syncs Of 2018
Tunefind has released its statistically driven Top TV and Film Sync lists of 2018 and for the second year in a row ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy is televisions most influential show when it comes to music. Ruelle tops the artist sync ranking. Tunefind produces the monthly Top TV Songs list which…
Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” Is Most Streamed Song Of The 20th Century
"Bohemian Rhapsody,” the iconic song by Queen, has became the world’s most-streamed song from the 20th Century, as well as the most-streamed Classic Rock song of all time more than 40 years after it was recorded. The original song and official video for “Bohemian Rhapsody,” taken from Queen’s seminal 1975…
Audiobyte Raises $6M For Gifnote Music Gif App
Audiobyte, the parent company of Giftnote and Songbytes has completed a $6 million financing round led by Evolution. The company’s apps create short licenced music plus graphics clips that can be shared in social and text messages. The Gifnote app allows users to ‘pair and share’ Songbytes—byte-sized music clips of…
AM BRIEF: Tencent Music IPO • Gifmote Raises $6M • Spotify’s Amber Grimes Joins Capital Music • More
WEDNESDAY 12.12.18
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