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Author archives: Music Business Worldwide
Rachel Menzies joins BMG as Senior Director of Original Repertoire Services
Experienced music supervisor goes in-house at BMG
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ADA Asia bolsters team with three senior executive hires
Tan Wei Keng named Director, Business Operations, Jin Hwang named Head of Korea and Chiou Rei Min appointed Head of Greater Chin
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Spotify just secured $1.3bn in debt. What could it spend it on?
Notes would fully mature on (as in, be repayable by) March 15, 2026
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Sony Music Publishing and country star Kane Brown sign worldwide deal, launch Verse 2 Music joint venture
Music industry veteran Kent Earls will be heading up JV’s operations
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Big Hit invests $3.6m in Supertone, an AI firm that just cloned a dead superstar’s voice
Startup claims to be able to create “a hyper-realistic and expressive voice that [is not] distinguishable from real humans”
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IFPI launches ‘transformative’ shared system for performance rights revenue distribution in Asia
IFPI and licensing companies in India, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand launch shared rights distribution system
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TuneCore expands into Africa with new hires in Nigeria and South Africa
Jade Leaf hired as Head of TuneCore, Southern Africa and East Africa and Chioma Onuchukwu named Head of TuneCore for West Africa and East Africa
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Over 60,000 tracks are now uploaded to Spotify every day. That’s nearly one per second.
The numbers behind some major announcements from Spotify unveiled this week
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It’s all about the data, stupid…
Mark Davyd of the Music Venue Trust urges his sector to put its faith in the numbers
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