MBW’s Trailblazers series meets Leander Kirschner, founder and CEO of Berlin-based independent music company Bamboo Artists.

YouTube added +25 million subscribers over the past 12 months.

Gaming continues to be a big opportunity for music rightsholders.

HYBE is still feeling effect of BTS’s absence.

Breakr has secured a strategic minority investment from Live Nation Urban.

beatBread CEO Peter Sinclair on why and how the company developed its data-driven comparison tool.

Benson Boone wins the IFPI Global Single Award for 2024.

ByteDance is fascinated with building music AI technologies.

WMG’s leadership team conducted the company’s calendar Q4 earnings call on February 6. MBW listened in, here’s what stood out.

Warner Music Group has published its financial results for the three months ended December 31.

ByteDance appears to have a service in the works that could shake up the global music licensing market.

New data shows that, even as K-Pop gets bigger in the US, album sales declines in its home country in 2024.

Spotify posted a quarterly operating income of over half a billion dollars.

Streaming company has paid out nearly $60bn to music rightsholders since Spotify was founded in 2008.

The world’s fourth-largest recorded music market generated 236 billion streams in 2024.

MBW explains new stats revealed by market monitor and analysis platform Luminate today (January 15).

Ditto hit the 1 million user mark in July 2023.

Victory Boyd claims they ripped off her song ‘Like The Way It Sounds’ to create their 2023 hit, ‘Telekinesis’.

Key facts and stats about the businesses and platforms owned by Downtown today.

Gata Only, released independently via UnitedMasters, was the most popular track globally on the platform this year.

Company currently represents 25 clients, who, together, have nearly 200 million combined social media followers.

MBW’s World Leaders series meets Jay Mehta, Managing Director, Warner Music South Asia.

Company is led by Director Želimir Babogredac and formerly known as Jugoton.

MBW’s World Leaders series meets Manubu Tsujino, President of Sony Music Labels, the recorded music division of Sony Music Entertainment Japan.

Johnny Marr tells MBW about his new artist development partnership with Epidemic Sound.

Everything we learned on Warner’s calendar Q3 earnings call.

Warner Music Group has published its financial results.

MBW Reacts is a series of analytical commentaries from Music Business Worldwide written in response to major recent entertainment events or news stories.

Spotify’s global Premium Subscriber base grew to 252m paying users in Q3.

TME added 2 million net subscribers in Q3 compared to the prior quarter (Q2).

ABS deal is backed by royalties from the 45,000-song portfolio acquired in July from Hipgnosis Songs Fund‘s then-public shareholders.

MBW’s Trailblazers series meets Atlanta-based artist managers and music executives Barry Johnson and Zeke Nicholson, co-founders of Sincethe80s.

Company claims to be the “only Independent All Rights Distributor” with its own AI department.

MBW meets Concord Records Co-Presidents Margi Cheske and Mark Williams.

UMG published its Q3 financial results on October 31. Here’s what was said on the company’s Q3 earnings call.

MBW’s World Leaders series meets Romain Vivien, Global Head of Music at Paris-headquartered music company Believe.

Concord catalog now worth more than USD $5 billion, according to Kroll report.

Company’s ESG report provides details on how it tackles copyright infringement amid the rise of AI-generated music.

Chief Zaruk and TCE co-founder and CEO Simon Tikhman, who has a background in business and tech, launched their company in 2019.

Here are three interesting things MBW has spotted about TikTok’s music moves in recent weeks.