Music Business Worldwide – Page 299 – The Talking Fern

Nic Warner named Partner at Milk & Honey Management

Warner joined Milk & Honey at its inception in 2014
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Why I Just Moved To The Middle East

For years, Spek has been a fixture of the UK and US music publishing industries – and their relationship with the MENA region. Here, he explains why he recently upped sticks from New York to live in (and work from) the UAE…
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Universal’s Mercury Studios to make new first ever feature-length documentary about Abbey Road Studios, If These Walls Could Sing

Documentary to be produced by multi award-winner John Battsek, as Mercury inks new development deal with Battsek’s Ventureland
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For record labels, 2021 should be the year of empathetic A&R

“Being empathetic will help us to know our artists better, understand them well, and as a result, achieve bigger goals together.”
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Spotify, worth $67bn, has seen its share price TREBLE in 10 months. Should Daniel Ek pay artists a ‘bonus’ to say thank you?

Spotify is still loss-making, but its market cap is so massive… should it pay a ‘phantom dividend’ to popular artists in need?
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Pro Music Rights prepares for direct public listing in the US

PMR will be offering 910 million shares of Class A Common Stock for a total offering amount of $9.1m
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KKR buys majority stake in Ryan Tedder catalog, marking investment giant’s return to music rights ownership

KKR says the Tedder catalog spans nearly 500 songs, covering both “music publishing and recorded music rights”
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Paul Gills appointed Vice President of Publisher Services at SoundExchange

Gills was previously Vice President of North American Administration for Universal Music Publishing Group
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Round Hill buys catalog of Bryan Adams songwriting partner Jim Vallance

Vallance has also written songs for artists including Bonnie Raitt, Aerosmith, Carly Simon, Rod Stewart, Roger Daltrey, Tina Turner, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Europe, Kiss and others
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Audible Magic acquires rights administration business MediaNet from SOCAN

SOCAN and Audible Magic also enter into strategic partnership
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