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Paul Roper, President of Dualtone Music Group, passes away after battle with cancer
Paul Roper, the widely respected President of Dualtone Music Group, passed away on Tuesday (December 17) after a courageous ...
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‘As a manager, you have to be somebody’s biggest fan.’
MBW’s World’s Greatest Managers series meets Dan Petel, founder of songwriter-producer management company This Is ...
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Inside the portfolio of businesses owned by Downtown Music – the company Universal is buying for $775m
Downtown Music Publishing recently struck a global music publishing deal with PDU, the record label and publishing company ...
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Universal’s Virgin Music Group to buy Downtown Music for $775 million
Virgin Music Group, the global independent music division of Universal Music Group, announced today it has entered into a ...
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Indie orgs critical of Downtown’s $775m sale to Universal/Virgin Music call for authorities to block deal
Noemí Planas, CEO of WIN and A2IM CEO Dr. Richard James Burgess MBE Independent music organizations WIN and A2IM have ...
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Utopia’s Bicester warehouse that services Universal, Sony, Beggars and Domino sold to landlord DP World
The Bicester, UK warehouse of Utopia Distribution Services (UDS) has been acquired by its landlord, DP World, through a ...
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UK’s PPL distributed $57m to performers and rightsholders in Q4 2024
UK-based music licensing body PPL paid out GBP £45.3 million (approx. $57 million at current exchange rates) to over 137,000 ...
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Prepare to remove TikTok from app stores by January 19, US lawmakers tell Google and Apple
US lawmakers have instructed Google and Apple to prepare to remove TikTok from their app stores by January 19, 2025, if its ...
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Steve Stoute talks independence, emerging markets and how UnitedMasters artist FloyyMenor scored TikTok’s biggest song of 2024
Indie distribution nibbling into the majors’ streaming market share is one of the modern industry’s biggest ...
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Anghami secures $55m investment from OSN Group following companies’ merger
The new investment is aimed at expanding Anghami’s content library and ‘enhancing the user experience through cutting-edge ...
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Audius and ICE ink multi-territory licensing deal
Audius has signed deals with a number of players in music publishing and performing rights over the last several ...
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On… the New York State of things – and dinner with Robert Kyncl.
Last week, to round out the year, I plumped for a Holiday-flavored, 48-hour trip to New York City. The duo’s friendship is ...