Rehegoo Music partners with B2B music firm Tuned Global to launch new background streaming service

Music services provider Rehegoo Music Group has partnered with B2B music streaming technology specialist Tuned Global [22 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/companies/tuned-global/”>Tuned Global to launch a new background music streaming service for businesses. Rehegoo’s new... Read more »

Arctic Monkeys’ label Domino grew its UK turnover by 31.6% in 2021, driven by strong catalog sales

Two weeks ago, electronic musician Four Tet, (Kieran Hebden) resolved a UK legal dispute with Domino [110 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/companies/domino-recording-co/”>Domino Records over a deal he signed with the label in 2001. Domino [110 articles]”... Read more »

Iceland-based music making app Overtune raises $2m in seed funding

Reykjavik, Iceland-born music-making app Overtune has closed a USD $2 million seed round. Overtune allows smartphone users to arrange beats, record vocals and share content to their socials. The startup says that... Read more »

Sound recording copyright term to be extended to 70 years in New Zealand

The term of copyright for sound recordings is being extended by 20 years in New Zealand. The country’s current copyright protection covers 50 years from the release date. Soon, that will be... Read more »

Multi-platinum rapper Logic signs to BMG

Multi-Platinum hip-hop star Logic has signed to BMG [780 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/companies/bertelsmann/bmg/”>BMG. The deal is described in press materials as a multi-album global partnership with the company. Variety reports that the agreement with... Read more »

Paul Cormack promoted to General Manager at Better Noise Music

Paul Cormack has been promoted to the role of General Manager at independent record label Better Noise Music [20 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/companies/better-noise-music/”>Better Noise Music. Cormack previously served as Managing Director of Canada for... Read more »

‘A decade in music is a millennium in other industries.’

In some ways, Downtown Music Services is a very different company than it was in the first half of last year. That’s because its parent company, Downtown Holdings, sold the entirety of... Read more »

NFT company Serenade just raised USD $4.2 million. What’s it going to spend it on?

Trailblazers is an MBW interview series that turns the spotlight on music entrepreneurs making waves in their local markets, who have the potential to become the global business’s power players of tomorrow.... Read more »

Songwriters, rejoice: Spotify appeal FAILS to stop composers getting improved 15.1% streaming royalty rate in the US

The saga is over. The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has today (July 1) maintained its decision to increase the headline rate paid to songwriters in the United States from streaming services between... Read more »

From Universal’s Frank Zappa catalog acquisition to Triller’s US IPO… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

Welcome to  Music Business Worldwide [185 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/companies/music-business-worldwide-2/”>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... Read more »