Author archives: Murray Stassen

Rosie Hill and Patrick Cloherty promoted after record year for Sentric Music Group sync team

Company’s sync revenue up 41% YoY in 2018
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Spotify users in Santiago, Chile are responsible for 400m reggaetón streams on the platform each month

Listeners in Santiago are responsible for 10% of the world’s reggaetón streams
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Nancy Matalon appointed Vice President, A&R at Spirit Music Group

Melanie Santa Rosa also promoted to Senior Vice President, Global Administration; Tamar Wax named Senior Director, Film/TV
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Music on Facebook & Instagram launched in 7 new European countries

New markets are the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Romania and Slovakia
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NMPA calls for ‘scrutiny’ of TikTok, says platform has ‘consistently violated US copyright law and the rights of songwriters and music publishers.’

‘Many videos uploaded to TikTok incorporate musical works that have not been licensed and for which copyright owners are not being paid.’
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