Startup incubator’s 2022 class includes Beatmatch, Circle Labs, Clever.Fm, Green Room, Keiphone, Music Games Company, Musicasa, Nal Media, Radia and Solace Vision
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135,000 artists are now getting paid through SoundCloud’s Fan-Powered Royalties platform
Platform pledges to match 100% of revenue earned by independent artists on Friday, April 29
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Social music creation platform BandLab closes Series B funding round at $65m
Prosus Ventures joins list of investors
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Wasserman Music acquires Paradigm’s UK live music business
Wasserman Music launched in April 2021 with the acquisition of Paradigm’s North American live music representation business
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Warner Music Group launches in-house podcast network, Interval Presents, led by Allan Coye
WMG labels and digital editorial brands will continue to produce podcast content under their own banners
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After teaming up with SoundCloud, Splice partners with African music streaming service, Boomplay
Companies to introduce ‘beat battle’ and new series of sample packs and collections called ‘Beyond Afrobeats’
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Having paid $222m to artists in 2021, TuneCore has now surpassed total payouts of $2.5bn
Artists using the platform have achieved 500bn streams and 700m downloads
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There are twelve countries in which cases of acute childhood hepatitis of unknown origin have been registered
Given the growing number of cases, especially in Europe, the WHO is already on alert.
Glenn Mendlinger promoted to EVP of Republic Records and President of Imperial Music
Mendlinger is based out of the company’s global headquarters in New York
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‘Web3 will be a building block for every musician in the future.’
Justin Blau tells MBW how Royal wants to be positioned in the music business, and gives us his predictions for the NFT space…
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