Mark Hoppus, Nick Lippman and Sherry Saeedi launch ‘venture capital-like’ artist incubator, Verswire

A new artist development incubator called Verswire has launched in Los Angeles and says that it aims to act as a “venture capital-like” music fund. Verswire was founded by blink-182’s Mark Hoppus... Read more »

Pharrell Williams launches NFT platform, the Gallery of Digital Assets

Pharrell Williams is launching a new NFT platform called the Gallery of Digital Assets or GODA. GODA’s founding team includes contemporary artist Nina Chanel Abney, investor and entrepreneur Shaun Neff, gallery owner... Read more »

‘Being straightforward and honest, not skirting around the issue, always yields the best results – and an understanding artist’

MBW’s World’s Greatest Managers series profiles the best artist managers in the global business. This time, we go deep with Adam Alpert, founder of [ Sony Music Entertainment [1,183 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/companies/sony/sony-music-group/sony-music-entertainment/”>Sony Music... Read more »

Sony Music to expand unrecouped balance program to more artists and songwriters

Last June, Sony Music Group [208 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/companies/sony/sony-music-group/”>Sony Music Group made the landmark announcement that it would no longer apply existing unrecouped balances to earnings for eligible artists who were signed prior to... Read more »

Genneah Turner appointed General Manager of The Featured Artists Coalition

Genneah Turner has been appointed General Manager of The Featured Artists Coalition (FAC), a UK, not-for-profit trade body representing the rights and interests of music artists. Reporting to CEO David Martin, she... Read more »

Helen Sachdev named Chair of joint venture between PPL and PRS for Music

Helen Sachdev has been appointed Chair of PPL [102 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/companies/ppl/”>PPL PRS For Music [265 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/companies/prs-for-music/”>PRS Ltd, a joint public performance licensing venture operated by PPL and PRS for Music. Sachdev... Read more »

SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo-man talks the metaverse and his ‘Future Vision of K-Pop’

Lee Soo-man, founder and Chief Producer of K-Pop giant SM Entertainment, delivered a speech at Stanford University on Friday (May 20) at a conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of Stanford University’s Korea... Read more »

Tim Pithouse joins Three Six Zero as President of Central Services, overseeing Marketing and Web3

Tim Pithouse has joined Three Six Zero as President of Central Services, the global artist management company has confirmed. Pithouse joins Three Six Zero from Sony Music Entertainment [1,182 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/companies/sony/sony-music-group/sony-music-entertainment/”>Sony Music‘s... Read more »

After raising $122m, mobile ticketing platform DICE expands into Germany

London-born ticketing platform DICE [18 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/companies/dice/”>DICE has expanded into Germany. DICE says that it currently has over 350 shows available in-app in Germany, including concerts with Bicep, Little Simz, Years &... Read more »

‘Music has always been my safe haven, it kept me off the streets and it kept me dreaming big.’

MBW’s World’s Greatest Producers series sees us interview – and celebrate – some of the greatest talents working in studios across the decades. The latest instalment features Swizz Beatz, who has produced... Read more »