Top news of the week: 20.10.2022.
The Ledger: How Streaming Platforms Are Looking Beyond Music to Boost Their Margins
Companies like Spotify and Deezer are ramping up their efforts to hook their users on products with better margins, from the spoken word to a wellness app.
Japanese Label Avex Is Taking a Page From K-Pop’s Playbook to Crack the U.S. Market
The Tokyo-based label, whose last effort in the U.S. fizzled, is signing artists like Sadie Jean and writers like Harv, who co-wrote Justin Bieber’s “Peaches.”
Burt Goldstein, Veteran Music Retail and Distribution Executive, Dies at 73
The longtime industry player founded the New York retail chain Musical Maze in the 1970s before going on to launch the distribution companies Impact and Big Daddy.
Simon Cowell teams with TikTok, Universal Music Group to launch music-making online ‘talent show’
StemDrop will see artists making their own tracks using stems from a Max Martin-penned single…
The Global-Local Approach to Growth in Africa at Large
In fact, for the first time in 2021, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) included Africa and the Middle East as key regions for the industry in their …
Stefflon Don Inks New Global Recording Partnership With BMG
The MC will release her debut studio album, ‘Island 54’, in 2023.
TikTok debuts StemDrop music format with UMG, Syco and Samsung
Amid all the speculation about TikTok Music, TikTok has been quietly working on… a new music format. It's called StemDrop.
Per Sundin on ABBA, Pophouse’s acquisition strategy – and why he thinks the smartest people at record companies will soon be working on catalog
The CEO of Pophouse Entertainment, and former CEO of Universal Music Sweden, joins the MBW Podcast…