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Songwriter/Producer management company Milk & Honey is the latest big name to back the upcoming Music Business UK Awards. Milk & Honey has supported the event from year one and will continue this year as the sponsor of the Publisher of the Year Award, won in 2023 by Warner Chappell. The industry’s most enjoyable night […]
Since it debuted in 2017, The Rap Of China, a televised music competition, has drawn multiple billions of views from music fans in the Greater China region. Now, the show has a new recorded music distribution partner: Universal Music Group. Universal Music Greater China (UMGC), a division of UMG, has today (October 18) announced a […]
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Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. MBW’s round-up is supported by Centtrip, which helps over 500 of the world’s best-selling artists maximize their income and reduce their touring costs. The industry’s biggest news this week was Universal Music […]
Earlier this week, Music Business Worldwide broke the news that Concord had splashed USD $217.3 million on a mystery catalog from a Latin Music artist and songwriter. It’s no longer a mystery. The artist in question is Daddy Yankee, the Puerto Rican superstar whose La Última Vuelta World Tour generated an estimated USD $198 million […]
K-pop giant HYBE’s superfan platform Weverse is launching a set of new higher-priced membership tiers for users on December 1. Current Weverse subscribers pay around USD $24 per year for benefits including exclusive content and announcements from their favorite artists. According to The Korea Herald, the new Weverse launch – dubbed “digital membership” – will […]
A jury in a Florida federal court has ruled that 2 Live Crew members and their heirs can take back the master copyrights on their music. However, that might not be the last word in the ongoing legal battle, as lawyers for Lil’ Joe Records, which currently holds the 2 Live Crew copyrights, have filed […]
After a series of earlier attempts that didn’t pan out, TikTok rival Triller is finally a publicly traded company. Having completed a merger with Hong Kong-focused financial services company AGBA, the new Triller Group Inc. debuted on the NASDAQ exchange on Wednesday (October 16). As of mid-day Eastern time, Triller Group’s stock (ticker symbol ILLR) […]
As an architecture student, Marcio Sequeira wanted to better understand structural behavior. Seeking a more hands-on way than equations and diagrams can provide, Sequeira began building structural models using elements connected by magnetics. He started off with wooden dowels, and experimented with plastic and rubber components before settling on springs. […]
Reservoir Media has struck a global publishing deal with Grammy and Juno award-winning singer-songwriter k.d. lang. The company says that the deal includes her future works and “partial catalog”. Lang has collaborated with superstars from Roy Orbison to Bonnie Raitt, Elton John, Loretta Lynn, and Tony Bennett. Reservoir’s latest deal arrives just two weeks after […]
TikTok rival Triller has completed its merger with Hong Kong-based financial firm AGBA, marking the culmination of a years-long effort to become a publicly traded company. According to a press release issued this afternoon, AGBA has officially changed its name to Triller Group Inc. and the combined company’s common stock and warrants are expected to […]