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Audio and video collab platform Pibox raises $1.2M, joins Google for Startups program
Audio-visual collaboration platform Pibox has secured $1.2 million in funding from investors including Presto Ventures, ...
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Bill Ackman wants to move Universal Music Group’s financial HQ from Amsterdam to the US. Universal isn’t so keen.
Billionaire Bill Ackman is one the most powerful behind-the-scenes players in the modern financialized music rights industry.
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Blackstone’s Hipgnosis closes $1.47bn asset-backed securities transaction
Credit: Tony Norkus/Shutterstock The portfolio includes songs from the Red Hot Chili Peppers (pictured), Fleetwood Mac, Journey and more Blackstone’s Hipgnosis has successfully completed a $1.47 ...
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SM Entertainment’s revenue slips 8.8% YoY in Q3 even as K-pop concerts boom
K-pop has become a booming global phenomenon, but the K-pop business is having something of a rough year. Nowhere is that clearer than in the latest earnings numbers from SM Entertainment, generally ...
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Darina Connolly joins Warner Music’s Rhino UK as General Manager
Widely respected industry executive Darina Connolly has been appointed by Warner Music as the new General Manager of catalog label Rhino in the UK. Warner also confirmed today (November 11) that after ...
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HYBE wants to change fan culture in US, Latin music, and 4 other things we learned on the company’s latest earnings call
K-pop giant HYBE has been expanding internationally in recent years, with notable acquisitions in the US and the Latin music ...
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From Ed Sheeran’s speech to UMG vs. TuneCore… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our ...
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‘What matters is that our gut instinct was right and we went with it.’
Here we meet Luke Conway, manager of one of the biggest breakthrough artists of the last two years, Teddy Swims. World’s ...
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Lekeisha Irion appointed Head of A&R at Warner Chappell Music Benelux
Lekeisha Irion has been appointed Head of A&R at Warner Chappell Music (WCM) Benelux. She will be based in the company’s ...
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Ed Sheeran’s speech about Max Lousada is the reason you all got into this business in the first place
Max Lousada was honored with the Sir George Martin Award at MBW’s Music Business UK Awards in London last night.
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‘We’re not looking to rush anybody’s career. We based our whole label on that premise, just building talent and developing their art.’
MBW’s Trailblazers series meets Atlanta-based artist managers and music executives Barry Johnson and Zeke Nicholson, ...
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Oasis add South America dates in Argentina, Brazil and Chile amid ‘resounding global response’ to 2025 world tour plans
What began as a limited series of concerts on the British Isles is now turning into a full-fledged world tour.