Music Business News: United States Interviews BMG CEO Thomas Coesfeld: ‘Our strategy is setting us up for growth.’ Boss of Bertelsmann's music company talks expansion, streaming prices, AI, and more Analysis News Latin Music’s US revenues hit $1.42 billion in 2024, up 5.8% YoY Latin Music revenues accounted for 8.1% of total recorded music revenue in the US last year News Music Glue opens Vancouver office headed by Tom Maguire, amid ‘increase in demand’ for D2C services The office will be headed up by Music Glue’s Chief Product Manager, Tom Maguire News Ned Monahan promoted to President at Joie Manda’s Encore Recordings; Jacob Fain named Head of A&R Fain comes to Encore from Elektra, and is known for signing artists such as Bailey Zimmerman and Leon Bridges News Trump says a deal to save TikTok in the US will get done this week. Will Blackstone take a stake? The deadline for ByteDance to sell TikTok's US operations is April 5, but the US president said he may extend it if necessary Analysis 5 million songs and $288m spent on catalogs: 8 Things We Learned from Universal Music Group’s 2024 Annual Report From the balance of catalog and frontline to granular financial details, MBW wades through a treasure trove of data News With Kid Rock at his side, Trump signs executive order to curb ticket price gouging Live Nation welcomed the executive order despite its ongoing legal battle with the federal government over alleged violations of antitrust laws News Udio, the startup sued by record companies last year, unveils tool to clone ‘sonic identity’ of existing songs Udio says its cloning technology “only supports uploads of content that users own or control"1 2 … 1,132 Next
Interviews BMG CEO Thomas Coesfeld: ‘Our strategy is setting us up for growth.’ Boss of Bertelsmann's music company talks expansion, streaming prices, AI, and more
Analysis News Latin Music’s US revenues hit $1.42 billion in 2024, up 5.8% YoY Latin Music revenues accounted for 8.1% of total recorded music revenue in the US last year
News Music Glue opens Vancouver office headed by Tom Maguire, amid ‘increase in demand’ for D2C services The office will be headed up by Music Glue’s Chief Product Manager, Tom Maguire
News Ned Monahan promoted to President at Joie Manda’s Encore Recordings; Jacob Fain named Head of A&R Fain comes to Encore from Elektra, and is known for signing artists such as Bailey Zimmerman and Leon Bridges
News Trump says a deal to save TikTok in the US will get done this week. Will Blackstone take a stake? The deadline for ByteDance to sell TikTok's US operations is April 5, but the US president said he may extend it if necessary
Analysis 5 million songs and $288m spent on catalogs: 8 Things We Learned from Universal Music Group’s 2024 Annual Report From the balance of catalog and frontline to granular financial details, MBW wades through a treasure trove of data
News With Kid Rock at his side, Trump signs executive order to curb ticket price gouging Live Nation welcomed the executive order despite its ongoing legal battle with the federal government over alleged violations of antitrust laws
News Udio, the startup sued by record companies last year, unveils tool to clone ‘sonic identity’ of existing songs Udio says its cloning technology “only supports uploads of content that users own or control"
