Category archives: Music industry

BMG Brokers a Major Move Into Television With ITV Pact

BMG and London-based television production company ITV Studios have closed a global partnership deal covering original music, sync deals, artist-promotion campaigns, and more. BMG and ITV Studios unveiled their “multifaceted agreement” in an official r…

TikTok Just Licensed the Entire Prince Catalog – What U.S. Gov. Investigation?

TikTok has inked a deal with the Prince estate to bring his full catalog of songs to the short-form video app. Prince was notoriously protective of his works when he was alive. The singer pulled his music from streaming services like Spotify and Apple …

Indie Non-Profit CASH Music Is Shutting Down — What Happened?

12 years after its founding, Portland-based indie nonprofit CASH Music (the Coalition of Artists and Stakeholders) has officially shut down. CASH Music higher-ups announced their non-profit’s permanent closure in a series of social media posts. “It is …

Tencent now controls 10% of Universal, 9% of Spotify… and nearly 2% of Warner Music Group

Tencent’s ownership of minority stakes in two of the world’s ‘big three’ music rights companies is made a touch more interesting by the fact that the Chinese giant may soon find itself opposite both Warner and Universal at the negotiating table.
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What will the music industry leave behind when lockdown lifts?

Lockdown has taught us many things. But amidst the constant Groundhog Days of Zoom calls and crossed out diary entries, it has been particularly good for realising the things you can’t live without – and rationalising the ones that no longer seem quite…

TikTok, pharmakon de l’industrie musicale

Bien que ce ne soit pas sa fonction principale, TikTok est une plateforme où on écoute de la musique. Les discussions avec les acteurs de l’industrie musicale sont plus lentes que le développement de l’application et cela ne se fait pas toujours au pro…