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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…

MBW Explains is a series of analytical features in which we explore the context behind major music industry talking points – and suggest what might happen next. MBW Explains is supported by JKBX, a technology platform that offers consumers…

As of Thursday (October 19), TikTok’s premium music streaming service, TikTok Music, is available to the public in Australia, Singapore and Mexico.The launch follows an initial beta roll-out in the three markets in July, which arrived two…

Pt Iman Das | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Though he hails from the Patiala gharana, Hindustani vocalist Iman Das has always encouraged different schools of melodic expressions. The vocalist who runs the Omkar Music Academy in…

MBW Views is a series of exclusive op/eds from eminent music industry people… with something to say.  The following comes from Eamonn Forde (pictured), a long-time music industry journalist, and the author of The Final Days of EMI: Selling…

“Twenty years ago, the German charts were just a carbon copy of British and American culture. Today, they’re all German acts.”This week on the MBW Podcast, Will Page, the ex-Chief Economist of both Spotify and UK collection society PRS For…

You can listen to the latest MBW podcast above, or on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart etc. via this link.Welcome to the latest episode of the Music Business Worldwide Podcast. The MBW Podcast is supported by Voly…

Legendary music producer and songwriter Nile Rodgers has been named as Apple Music‘s Artist in Residence, focusing on the implementation of Spatial Audio.Rodgers, a Rock & Roll and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, has played a…

You can listen to the latest MBW podcast above, or on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart etc. via this link.Welcome to the latest episode of the Music Business Worldwide Podcast. The MBW Podcast is supported by Voly…

“Some of the short-form video providers are relatively new… it doesn’t take a scientist to realize that we are being underpaid by ” – Rob Stringer, Sony Music Group Chairman.“In terms of where we’re currently situated… we’re going to be…