Who is the artist at the center of Merck Mercuriadis’s latest nine-figure deal?
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Warner Music Group buys stake in virtual concerts platform Wave
Warner says partnership will enable it to unleash “more powerful artist activations”
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Jay-Z finalizes TIDAL sale to Jack Dorsey for $350m… as platform boasts of paying ‘4X more per stream’ than rivals
Final sales price, as reported by TMZ, is over $50 million more than expected
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YouTube is now generating $2bn a month from ads – and grew faster than Netflix in Q1
Latest Alphabet results show 49% year-on-year growth in Q1 ads
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From Downtown’s $400m copyright sale to Tencent’s trouble in China: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up
The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
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Warner Music Group partners with tech company Genies to develop avatars and NFTs for WMG artists
Genies has previously built avatars for the likes of Justin Bieber, Shawn Mendes, Rihanna, Migos, Cardi B and others
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EU accuses Apple of breaking competition law over app store rules, after Spotify anti-trust complaint
Preliminary findings from the European Commission’s anti-trust investigation published today
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Coldplay’s UK label bosses discuss new project, upcoming album
Parlophone Co-Presidents Mark Mitchell and Nick Burgess on “a different type of campaign” and how Coldplay are always starting again
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Goldman Sachs: Universal is worth over $50bn, and global music streaming revenues will rise $3bn this year
Latest Music In The Air report has been obtained by MBW – and it’ll put a spring in the industry’s step
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European Music Managers Alliance hires Yvonne Stausbøll as its first Executive Director
“This is a significant step for EMMA,” says trade org
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