Major music industry names pay tribute to one of the greatest songwriters to emerge from the original Motown era
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Spotify has spent $1.2bn+ on companies to scale its non-music business over the past 3 years
A round-up on acquisitions made by Spotify over the past three years
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Music’s bond adventure continues, as SESAC and Hipgnosis both launch nine-figure offerings
SESAC used the money raised to buy Audio Network; Hipgnosis’ bonds will be priced next week. Both deals involve Blackstone.
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‘As AI creative technologies become more common, the question of AI authorship is particularly important.’
In the following MBW op/ed, Dublin-based Barry Scannell copyright and authorship issues around AI-created art and music
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Music and travel startup Pollen falls into administration, three months after raising $150m
Firm calls in restructuring experts Kroll
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Warner Music Group revenues up 12.1% in calendar Q2; recorded music streaming up 2.7%
A mixed bag of results for Warner, but double-digit increase achieved nonetheless – even as ad-funded streaming growth slows
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Reservoir revenues grow 46% to $24.3m in calendar Q2
Reservoir Media has published the financial results for its fiscal Q1 2023 (calendar Q2, 2022)
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From Live Nation’s 100m tickets to Concord’s eight-figure deal… It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
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Live Nation has already sold 100m tickets for concerts in 2022 – more than it sold in the whole of 2019
Company generated revenues of $6.2bn across all divisions in the first six months of the year, according to new investor filing
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‘A publicly accessible platform on which anyone can make undeletable, tamper-proof assertions about their ownership of or contribution to music sounds like the foundations of anarchy’
The following MBW op/ed comes from Mark Douglas, Chief Information Officer at PPL, the UK’s music licensing company for over 130,000 performers and recording rightsholders.
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