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Spotify’s audiobook bundling move will swipe 1% of Reservoir’s FY 2025 annual revenue, estimates company
Spotify’s decision to classify its Premium subscription tiers as a bundle (i.e., music streaming plus audiobooks) has upset many in...
From HYBE’s restructure to Warner Music’s leadership shakeup… 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...
Music AI platforms can get a ‘Fairly Trained’ certification for meeting ethical standards. Those standards just got tougher.
Fairly Trained, a non-profit that certifies AI developers who ethically train their technology (for instance, by not using copyrighted materials...
Warner Music Group shake-up: Max Lousada to exit; Elliot Grainge named CEO of Atlantic Music Group, with Julie Greenwald as Chairman
Warner Music Group‘s recorded music operation is changing.The major music company has confirmed that its global CEO of Recorded Music,...
Believe generated $510 million in the first six months of 2024, up 12.3% YoY
Paris-headquartered music company Believe has published its financial results for the first half of 2024 (the six months ending June 30).Believe,...
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square USA withdraws IPO, citing investor uncertainty
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management has surprisingly pulled the plug on the initial public offering (IPO) of its new...
It’s ‘business as usual’ at Live Nation despite DoJ antitrust lawsuit, and 3 other things we learned on the company’s Q2 earnings call
MBW Reacts is a series of analytical commentaries from Music Business Worldwide written in response to major recent entertainment events...
‘This is just the beginning. There’s still so much potential for Afrobeats and Amapiano in the coming years.’
Trailblazers is an MBW interview series that turns the spotlight on music entrepreneurs with the potential to become the global...
As Spotify readies $18 per month ‘deluxe’ tier, do consumers care about high quality audio?
MBW Reacts is a series of analytical commentaries from Music Business Worldwide written in response to major recent entertainment events...
Bill Ackman massively scales back expectations for the IPO of his Pershing Square USA, from $25bn to $2bn
Bill Ackman, whose Pershing Square Holdings is one of Universal Music Group (UMG)’s largest shareholders, has massively reduced the price...
