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Poo Bear inks JV with Def Jam for his label Bearthday Music
He has amassed nearly 300 major songwriting and production credits
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Warner Music Group and Spotify strike podcast development deal
Original podcasts to be built around WMG’s artists’ and songwriters’ catalogs
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Tencent Music gets new CEO as Cussion Pang takes new role
Zhu Liang (Ross Liang) appointed as Chief Executive Officer
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African music service uduX launches PopRev, an investment platform that lets fans buy shares in artists’ music
Platform to launch in partnership with Nigeria-based FinTech firm PiggyVest
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Warner Music Asia launches Pan-Asian dance label, Whet Records
First signing is producer and DJ Lizzy Wang
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Reservoir to list on the NASDAQ via SPAC merger with $788m valuation
Reservoir has spent $400m on catalog acquisitions to date – and says it’s going to keep on buying
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Triller has a new CEO… having just acquired 3 companies in 5 weeks
Amplify.ai co-founder and CEO Mahi de Silva named CEO of TrillerNet, as Mike Lu transitions to role of President
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TikTok users watch the app for an average of 89 minutes per day – and there’s 732m of them worldwide
Leaked pitch deck reveals a slew of the Bytedance app’s key numbers in 2021
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Sherri Sosa joins Live Nation to oversee portfolio of 100+ venues in the US
Exec hired as President of Venue Nation
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