Music streaming services – particularly Spotify – are morphing into something else entirely
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Hipgnosis confirms Johnny McDaid, Jack Antonoff and other catalog acquisitions
Shape Of You, Photograph and other Ed Sheeran hits join the Hipgnosis portfolio
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Who’s the biggest music publisher in the world?
Sony’s music publishing companies turned over more than a billion in first nine months of 2019
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Ed Howard and Briony Turner named Co-Presidents of Atlantic Records UK
Well-regarded duo succeed Ben Cook, who left Atlantic in October
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‘Real artists are breaking very big, very fast… because there’s a thirst for superstars.’
Brandon Creed on modern management and building the careers of megastars like Bruno Mars and Lizzo
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Having spent $665m on songs, Hipgnosis now owns slices of Shape Of You and Uptown Funk
Fund says that it now co-owns over 11,000 songs
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The major labels will generate over $14bn in 2019, as Warner bucks trend of streaming slowdown (just)
Some very impressive news for Universal, Sony and Warner… and a warning sign?
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Warner launches $650m fund to do battle with music’s big spenders
On one hand, these are heady times for major labels: MBW analysis set to be published later today (December 10) will predict that the record companies of Universal, Sony and Warner will generate a combined $14bn in 2019 – yes, that’s more than $1…
Dirty Hit inks global digital distribution deal with Ingrooves
“UMG’s acquisition of Ingrooves is a perfect marriage of Dirty Hit’s two core partners and so this deal with Ingrooves, whose footprint is expanding, feels like a natural evolution as we continue to grow.”
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Now Merck Mercuriadis’ Hipgnosis is buying master rights, as it swoops for Kaiser Chiefs catalog
“I’m delighted that Mark, Martin, James, Nick, Ricky and the band have entrusted us with this special catalogue.”
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