Annual figure was up by over $4.6bn year-on-year
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Author archives: Music Business Worldwide
Neil Jacobson secures $200m IPO for acquisitive music company, now trading on the NYSE
Company to float on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TMAC.U on February 3
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Nuclear Blast Records appoints Jerome Riera, Gerardo Martinez and Marcus Hammer for new global management structure
Believe acquired a majority stake in the label in October 2018
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‘In the music business, there is no such thing as an independent within a major.’
Henry Semmence, founder and MD of UK-based Absolute Label Services, on what Sony’s acquisition of AWAL means for the wider independent sector
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Dr. Menna Demessie appointed SVP and Executive Director of Universal’s global Task Force for Meaningful Change
TFMC was established in 2020 by UMG Chairman and CEO Sir Lucian Grainge as a force for social justice in the music industry and beyond
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Spotify lost the equivalent of $2.2m every day in 2020… as it spent over $1bn on sales and marketing in the year
MBW shines the spotlight on SPOT’s 2020 fiscal results – on the black ink… and the red ink
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Spotify subscriptions grew to 155m in 2020, Monthly Active Users topped 345m
Spotify published its financial results today
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Concord promotes seven executives to VP, SVP and EVP roles
Promotions occurred across all of the company’s business areas in Los Angeles, New York and London
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After leaving Spotify last year, Joe Budden takes podcast to Patreon, joins firm as Head of Creator Equity
First exclusive episode of The Joe Budden Podcast to launch on February 8
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Why Soundcharts, used by all major record companies, is ‘not your typical music data aggregator’
Soundcharts CEO, David Weiszfeld, on the music industry’s future evolution – and his company’s role in it
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