Music Business Worldwide

Nick Ghelakis and Nicole Thomas named Co-Country Managers of Virgin Music Group, South Africa

Murray Stassen — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 13:10:06 +0000

South Africa is the largest recorded music market in the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) region

NetEase Cloud Music expands K-Pop library with JYP Entertainment partnership

Mandy Dalugdug — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:30:11 +0000

The China-based music streaming service says it will continue signing new partnerships to bring a wider range of music to its listeners

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TikTok strikes another global ticketing partnership, this time with Germany’s CTS EVENTIM

Mandy Dalugdug — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:10:45 +0000

TikTok's push into ticketing services comes amid a licensing dispute with Universal, and a US law forcing ByteDance to sell the company or face a ban

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Jenny Gorotiza promoted to Vice President, Marketing at Island Records

Mandy Dalugdug — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:58:29 +0000

Based in New York, Gorotiza will continue to spearhead creative marketing campaigns for artists, including Shawn Mendes, keshi, and Lauren Spencer Smith

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‘Return of the Mack’ hitmaker Mark Morrison strikes ‘multi-million dollar’ music rights deal with Evan Bogart’s Seeker Music

Mandy Dalugdug — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:34:54 +0000

Morrison's 'Return of the Mack' has been sampled in more than 25 songs, and has appeared in numerous ads

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A shaman, a management coup, a tearful press conference and a $770m market cap dip: What the heck is going on at HYBE?

Daniel Tencer — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 20:43:24 +0000

Disputes between record companies and their executives have happened before, but this one takes the cake for weirdness

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Deezer’s revenues grew 14.2% YoY to $144m in Q1; subscriber base reached 10.5m

Murray Stassen — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 20:40:18 +0000

Paris-headquartered music streaming service Deezer has published its financial results and subscriber numbers for Q1 2024

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NEON16 signs Latin American producers, Faraon and Distobal, to its publishing division

Music Business Worldwide — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:08:13 +0000

'This partnership symbolizes our commitment to shaping the future of music,' said Raul Chirinos, NEON16's Head of Publishing

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ONErpm’s ONE Publishing strikes partnership with YouTube for multiple countries in Latin America and the US

Murray Stassen — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:04:02 +0000

ONE Publishing to directly collect mechanical royalties from YouTube in Brazil, the United States, and multiple Latin American countries

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PULSE Music forms ‘music publishing creative joint venture’ with Jon Bellion’s Beautiful Mind

Mandy Dalugdug — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:20:52 +0000

Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Elijah Noll is the first artist signed to the joint venture.

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