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Music Business Worldwide (MBW) is the leading information and jobs service for the global music industry. It publishes two podcasts: The weekly series, Talking Trends – which dives behind the biggest headlines in the music industry – as well as The MBW Podcast, which sees us interview some of the leading figures in the global business.
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Welcome to the latest MBW Podcast – this time a special podcast entry in our long-running World's Greatest Producers series.Salaam Remi is, by any measure, a World's Greatest Producer. A Grammy winner, he's worked closely – and made timeless hits – with musical legends from Nas to Amy Winehouse, Alicia Keys, The Fugees, and many more. He's also an accomplished music biz executive and entrepreneur. On this podcast, Salaam joins MBW founder, Tim Ingham, to discuss topics including techniqu...
On the latest Music Business Worldwide Podcast, Tim Ingham, founder of MBW, is joined by the founder and CEO of Harbourview Equity Partners, Sherrese Clarke Soares (pictured).Since being established in 2021, Harbourview has acquired premium music assets associated with stars such as Wiz Khalifa Nelly, Lady A, Florida Georgia Line and Christine McVie. One of Harbourview's biggest deals to date was its reported $325 million purchase of Sound House Acquisitions LLC in 2022. The company...
On the latest Music Business Worldwide Podcast, Tim Ingham, founder of MBW, is joined by the CEO of Amra, Tomas Ericsson (pictured).Amra is a global digital collection society that happens to be owned by Kobalt Music Group. Since Kobalt acquired and relaunched Amra in 2015, the collection society has become a fast-growing business in its own right: in the 12 months to the end of June 2022 – the last year for which public financial information is available – Amra generated over USD $110 m...
On the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Eliah Seton, the CEO of SoundCloud.Seton (pictured) joined SoundCloud as the company’s President in 2021 after over a decade at Warner Music Group/ADA. Seton then became CEO of SoundCloud last year.During his time at SoundCloud he has steered the company beyond major milestones – including SoundCloud's first ever annual profit, posted last year.The biggest headline surrounding SoundCloud in 2024, however, has ...
On the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Emmanuel Zunz, founder of ONErpm, one of the recorded music industry's most interesting companies and something of a quiet giant.When it was founded in 2010, ONErpm quickly gained ground in Brazil, where it continues to challenge the major record companies for market share. Since finding success in Brazil, ONErpm has grown all over the planet, offering a range of partnerships to artists, from low-margin DIY di...
On this episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is once again joined by Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two key recent headlines from the world of entertainment.This week's duo of topical picks get our hosts more irritated than usual:(1) The US Department of Justice suing Live Nation and Ticketmaster in a bid to break up what it describes as an "unlawful monopoly". (2) Generative AI Suno raising $125 million, as its prime investor – venture capital firm Light...
On the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Temi Adeniji, Managing Director of Warner Music Africa and SVP of Sub-Saharan Africa at Warner.Africa, especially Sub-Saharan Africa, is already a major global music industry story with huge potential for the future. On the music-making side of things, the continent has produced global hits and superstars in recent years including the likes of Burna Boy from Nigeria, Tyla from South Africa, and many others.Bas...
1On this episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is once again joined by Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two key recent headlines from the world of entertainment: (1) Universal Music Group's kiss-and-make-up announcement with TikTok over the two companies' new deal, via which UMG says it's being paid more handsome compensation than it was previously; (2) Spotify quietly moving access to lyrics behind a 'paywall' – i.e. making lyrics a Premium-only pe...
On this Music Business Worldwide podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by David Israelite, the President and CEO of the National Music Publishers' Association.We probably don't need to ask you to guess which particular controversial topic Israelite and Ingham discuss.Earlier this month, Spotify announced that it was changing the way it calculates mechanical royalty payments for songwriters and publishers in the US.Spotify has re-categorized its Premium subscription tiers in the States as ...
On this episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is once again joined by Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two key recent headlines from the world of entertainment: (1) A battle between Concord and financial giant Blackstone to acquire Hipgnosis Songs Fund – the UK-listed bundle of music rights accumulated by Merck Mercuriadis; (2) Spotify's decision to re-categorize its Premium subscription tiers as 'bundles' – including audiobooks – that will materia...
On this episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is joined by Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two key recent headlines from the world of entertainment: (1) Criticism of Spotify from non-superstar artists who say the platform isn't paying them a fair amount in royalties; (2) Taylor Swift unilaterally putting her recorded music back on TikTok despite her record company, Universal Music Group, continuing to refuse to license the service.People and companies ...
On the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Milana Rabkin Lewis, the founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Stem, a distribution and services company, including financial services for independent artists.Stem has had a big 12 months. A major highlight arrived last summer when the company announced it had secured a $250 million credit agreement with Victory Park Capital, which has transformed the size and scope of artist advances that Stem can offer.F...
On this episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is joined once again by Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two key recent headlines from the world of entertainment: (1) Fortnite's 'Festival', built by music gaming experts Harmonix, in which players can purchase music tracks via in-game store; (2) A stat from Spotify showing that over half the 66,000 artists who generated $10k+ on the platform in 2023 were based in countries where English is not the first languag...
Welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide Podcast, supported by Voly Entertainment.Joining MBW founder, Tim Ingham, on this podcast is Julius Erving III, better known as J. Erving.Erving is the founder of Los Angeles-based Human Re Sources, a distribution and services company working with premium independent artists. Its successful clients since launch have included Brent Faiyiz, Pinks Sweats, Ant Clemons, and YBN Nahmir.Right now, though, people are focusing on Human Re Sources for one ...
On this episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends (supported by Voly Entertainment): MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is joined by Los Angeles-based music biz seer, Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two recent headlines from the world of entertainment: (1) Deezer's decision to remove 26 million music tracks from its library of content; and (2) The amount of 'manipulated audio' that continues to thrive on TikTok today - even when it's a Universal Music Group recording being 'manipulated'. (Al...
On this episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is once again joined by US-based music biz veteran, Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two specific recent headlines from the world of entertainment: (1) A tough time on the public markets for private members' chain – and music industry favorite – Soho House; and (2) The increasing prospect of a battle between Denis Ladegaillerie and Warner Music Group to acquire control of Believe.People and companies mentioned on...
On this Music Business Worldwide Podcast, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, interviews Aaron Bay-Schuck, the CEO and co-Chairman of Warner Records in Los Angeles.Right now, Warner Records is on fire like no other time in its recent history. It's seeing blockbuster success from several artists who, according to Bay-Schuck, are all true artist propositions – in this industry for the long-term, rather than just a quick streaming or TikTok hit.These artists include the likes of Teddy Swims, Benson Boone, ...
MBW's Talking Trends is back! On this episode, Music Business Worldwide founder, Tim Ingham, is joined by US-based industry expert, Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two specific topics that have made headlines in recent weeks: (1) A recent wave of lay-off announcements at major music companies, and (2) Universal Music Group's new $240 million investment into Chord Music.People and companies mentioned on this Talking Trends podcast include: Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Robert Kyncl, Ju...
Hello and welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide Podcast, supported by Voly Music – now known as Voly Entertainment.On this podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham discusses a crisis that's rapidly deteriorating the UK live music scene.The Music Venue Trust is a trade body representing the interests of a vital collective of British live music venues. It’s just released a bunch of shocking statistics in its annual report – including the fact that in 2023, an average of two of the UK’s live mus...
On this episode of the Music Business Worldwide podcast – supported by Voly Entertainment – MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is joined by Rasty Turek.Rasty is the founder and CEO of Pex – which, amongst other things, tracks and analyses copyrighted content on digital services.According to Pex's tech, over a million tracks on audio streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, and TIDAL, are not what they appear to be. These million-plus tracks are what Pex calls “modified audio” – which means an...
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