Cutting Edge acquires ‘major’ film music catalog from First Score Music in multi-million dollar deal
The market for copyrights belonging to composers for film and TV continues to heat up.Just yesterday (March 22), Multimedia Music, ...
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Tencent Music Entertainment had 88.5m paying users at the end of 2022, up 16.1% YoY
Tencent Music Entertainment Group has published its financial results for Q4 and the full year, ended December 31, 2022.By the end ...
France is ‘struggling’ to reach the paid subscription levels of other major music markets. Is TikTok partly to blame?
France, the world’s fifth biggest music market, generated recorded music revenues of €920 million (USD $967m) in 2022, according to ...
Eric Levin, long-time Warner Music Group CFO, to retire later this year
Eric Levin, EVP and Chief Financial Officer, Warner Music Group, has confirmed he will retire from the company by the ...
From Larry Jackson’s $1bn-backed gamma to the US recorded music industry’s $15.9bn in 2022… 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 headlines ...
Spotify approaches $40bn in all-time payouts to the music industry
MBW’s Stat Of The Week is a series in which we highlight a single data point that deserves the attention ...
Scooter Braun and HYBE want to build a ‘major’ music label. How will their $300m bet on Quality Control play into that aim?
MBW Reacts is a series of comment pieces from the Music Business Worldwide team. They are our analytical (and sometimes opinionated) ...
Lyric Capital raises over $800m to buy music rights
New York-based private equity firm Lyric Capital Group, parent company of Spirit Music Group, has successfully closed its second fund, ...
How Sony Music Group accelerated its status as the world’s 2nd biggest music rights company in 2022
MBW’s Stat Of The Week is a series in which we highlight a single data point that deserves the attention ...
Is the slowdown in big-money music catalog deals officially over?
MBW Reacts is an ongoing series of comment pieces from the Music Business Worldwide team. They are our analytical (and sometimes opinionated) ...
