Red Bull Records will remain, but other music activity gets chopped
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‘Unison was not created just to solve problems in Spain, but to compete in the global market.’
Spanish org’s CEO, Jordi Puy, explains how Unison is shaking up royalty collection at home and abroad
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Sony sells Syco TV formats to Simon Cowell – but keeps music catalog
Rob Stringer: “Sony Music has had incredible global success with so many artists that have been launched through Simon’s vision and innovation and we are proud to continue to represent the Syco music catalog and its artists.”
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It’s Facebook vs. YouTube: Official music videos coming to Mark Zuckerberg’s platform in August
It’s on: Artists are being asked to opt-in to social media giant’s new feature
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‘It’s so important to see music publishing as a global business now.’
Downtown’s new Global President of Music Publishing, Mike Smith, tells MBW what’s on his agenda
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Confirmed: Spotify launches in Russia (and 12 other countries); service now reaches 92 markets globally
“Today’s launch opens the door for nearly 250 million fans to start discovering new music from around the world on Spotify.”
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Amazon: Yes, we banned TikTok – but we didn’t mean it!
Bizarre turnaround from Jeff Bezos’s company as it un-blacklists Bytedance app
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Rough week for TikTok gets rougher: 500,000 Amazon employees told to delete app over ‘security risks’
TikTok was already having a bad week. Seemingly inspired by a decision by India’s government to ban the Bytedance app over national security concerns, on Monday (July 6), US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo suggested that President Donald Trump…
SoundCloud and Pharrell might just have uncovered a slew of future hits on ‘I Am Other, Vol 1’
In April, SoundCloud announced a special partnership with Pharrell Williams and i am OTHER in which the parties asked the global SoundCloud community to share original tracks “inspired by the moment”. (That moment, in the most part, relatin…
Hipgnosis has another $300m to spend on songs, thanks to its biggest fundraise yet
“This is our biggest fundraise to date, and the biggest fundraise by a LSE listed investment trust since the COVID-19 lockdown, which speaks volumes for the financial community’s recognition of Songs as an asset class.”
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