Warner Chappell Music has signed a worldwide publishing agreement with the hugely popular Mandarin popstar A-Lin. Born in Taiwan, A-Lin, rose to fame in 2006 after achieving rapid commercial success from her debut album Lovelorn, Not Guilty. A-Lin has written and recorded eight albums and one EP as well as releasing four compilations. She has …
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Just last week, Hipgnosis Songs Fund confirmed the acquisition of a music catalog from hit producer Emile Haynie, in addition to acquiring a music catalog from Blink-182 co-founder Tom DeLonge. Today (January 17), the acquisitive, Merck Mercuriadis-led, London based company has confirmed that it has acquired yet another music catalog – this time from hit …
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BMI is proud to support Song Arts Academy’s next workshop intensive starting Monday, February 17. The workshop is a proven and unique learning destination taught by NYU Steinhardt, New School Songwriting faculty member and Berklee NYC consultant Billy Seidman. Past writers trained in the workshop’s “Advanced Song Craft Method”™ include Bebe Rexha, Rachel Platten, GRAMMY-winner …
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Today (January 17), Universal Music UK launches Creative Differences – an initiative, amongst other things, designed to help ensure that the brightest professional talent with dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADHD, autism and other forms of neurocognitive variation are given a fair chance during company recruitment processes. Here, British music industry veteran, Andy Edwards (pictured), describes his own …
A trio of Nineties pop rockers will join forces for a North American trek as Barenaked Ladies, Gin Blossoms and Toad the Wet Sprocket embark on their Last Summer on Earth Tour. The 34-date jaunt of the nation’s amphitheaters and pavilions begins June 3rd in St. Augustine, Florida and circles the U.S. before concluding July …
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If there’s one stat that says everything about the recovery of SoundCloud in recent years, it’s this: in calendar 2017, the company turned over circa $102m. But just two years later, in Q4 2019, the firm’s 12-monthly gross revenue run-rate exceeded $200m for the first time in history. SoundCloud informed MBW about this 2019 financial …
Ambitious as its plans for world domination are, it’s still a feisty indie label. In this ongoing series, we take a closer look inside some of the many labels carving their own niche. Partisan Records’ story has never been predictable, but that tends to be the case for any endeavor driven first and foremost by …
Warner Chappell Music has entered into a global publishing agreement with the Grateful Dead’s company, Ice Nine. The administration deal covers the iconic group’s entire body of work, including nearly 200 original compositions, and spanning three decades of studio, live, and archival songs. Born out of San Francisco’s counterculture movement in the mid-‘60s, the Grateful …
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In an industry where it is easy to over produce and turn a once unstripped piece of art into a polished piece for the mainstream, indie-pop artist Victoria Bigelow fights back with a humble approach to her single “To Everyone I’ve Loved Before.” The single is the first release since her 2019 debut EP, ‘Going …
