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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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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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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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‘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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Chartmetric unveils ‘revolutionary’ predictive artist discovery tool that examined data of over 10M artists
Music analytics company Chartmetric has released a new talent search tool that employs data analysis to identify emerging ...
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TikTok deepens integration with Spotify and Apple Music via new feature that lets streamers ‘Share to TikTok’
TikTok may have recently announced the shutdown of its TikTok Music streaming platform (in the handful of countries where it ...
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Megan Thee Stallion, GloRilla sued by rapper Plies for alleged copyright infringement in ‘Wanna Be’
Credit: L Paul Mann/Shutterstock Megan Thee Stallion is among the artists named in a copyright infringement suit over 'Wanna ...
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‘We put a lot of time and pressure on ourselves to make our social media the best it can be, but at the end of the day, it’s a vanity project.’
The following is an extract from Sound Advice, a health-focused career guide for artists written by MBW Contributing Editor ...
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Classical music platform Kuke reveals its president stepped down in July amid legal, stock performance woes
Chinese classical music platform Kuke Music Holding on Monday (November 4) announced that Li Sun has stepped down from ...
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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.