New office will be home to Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music Publishing (SMP) and The Orchard
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Snoop Dogg, Google Ventures and Samsung join $450m seed funding round for Yuga Labs, the web3 firm behind Bored Ape Yacht Club
Funding round values Yuga Labs at $4 billion
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‘Free’ music streaming paid the record industry $4.6bn in 2021… and other key insights from the latest IFPI Global Music Report
MBW crunches the IFPI’s latest numbers – and discovers some head-turning facts and figures
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Roblox and Sony reveal that 24kGoldn will be the latest artist to perform a virtual concert on the gaming platform
Pre-concert ‘quests’ have already seen over 1.6m visits
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Apple’s music recognition app Shazam is also a concert discovery platform now
Shazam now counts over 225 million monthly active users
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Muni Long partners with Def Jam Recordings via Supergiant Records label
Breakthrough hit Hrs & Hrs has racked up over 150m streams
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Sony Music Publishing promotes Thomas Krottinger to Vice President, Creative
Over the last two years, Krottinger has worked closely with global superstar Olivia Rodrigo, who signed with SMP last year.
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Global recorded music revenues hit $25.9bn in 2021, up 18.5% YoY
IFPI reveals recorded music revenue figures in Global Music Report 2022
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Immersive live-streaming tech company Volta raises $3m from Deadmau5, Robb McDaniels and more
Other investors include Techstars Music and 7 Percent Ventures
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Reservoir acquires rights in catalog of film score composer Henry Jackman
Deal includes rights in entire catalog, including scores for blockbuster films like the Captain America franchise, Wreck-It Ralph and Jumanji
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