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Spotify to reserve concert tickets for superfans on Premium tier; Live Nation confirmed as launch partner as companies strike multi-year deal

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Spotify to reserve concert tickets for superfans on Premium tier; Live Nation confirmed as launch partner as companies strike multi-year deal

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Spotify is launching a new feature called Reserved that will hold two concert tickets per tour for an artist’s most...

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Warner Music COO, Armin Zerza: Music is under-monetized, under-digitized, and ripe for ‘years of productivity’

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Warner Music COO, Armin Zerza: Music is under-monetized, under-digitized, and ripe for ‘years of productivity’

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When Warner Music Group hired Armin Zerza as CFO in May 2025, the company was recruiting from...

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Sony Music Publishing promotes ZaZa Kazadi to Senior Director, A&R, UK & Europe

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Sony Music Publishing promotes ZaZa Kazadi to Senior Director, A&R, UK & Europe

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Sony Music Publishing (SMP) has promoted ZaZa Kazadi to Senior Director, A&R, UK & Europe. Kazadi will...

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Japan’s Avex sees music segment revenues grow 6.8% YoY to $810M in latest fiscal year

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Japan’s Avex sees music segment revenues grow 6.8% YoY to $810M in latest fiscal year

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Japanese entertainment giant Avex Inc. has published its financial results for the company’s latest full fiscal year...

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Evan Whikehart named General Manager, North America at IDOL, as Paris-headquartered indie says its annual revenue topped $50m globally last year

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Evan Whikehart named General Manager, North America at IDOL, as Paris-headquartered indie says its annual revenue topped $50m globally last year

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IDOL, the Paris-headquartered independent distributor, has appointed Evan Whikehart as its new General Manager – North America....

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Vietnam’s DAO Music Entertainment strikes strategic partnership with The Orchard

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Vietnam’s DAO Music Entertainment strikes strategic partnership with The Orchard

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Vietnamese-based music company DAO Music Entertainment has entered into a partnership with The Orchard, the distribution and artist/label...

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From Sony Music Publishing’s $4 billion catalog deal to Live Nation’s ‘blue dot fever’ rebuttal… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up

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From Sony Music Publishing’s $4 billion catalog deal to Live Nation’s ‘blue dot fever’ rebuttal… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up

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Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s Weekly Round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest...

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Meet 2026’s first breakout band, according to Luminate – a masked math rock duo called Angine de Poitrine, with weekly global on-demand streams up from under 2k to 11.2m in a single year

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Meet 2026’s first breakout band, according to Luminate – a masked math rock duo called Angine de Poitrine, with weekly global on-demand streams up from under 2k to 11.2m in a single year

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Angine de Poitrine, a microtonal math rock duo from Quebec, went from near-total obscurity to global virality...

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Barry Weiss’s RECORDS promotes Andrew Saltman to SVP of Artist Development, Sara Gil to General Manager

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Barry Weiss’s RECORDS promotes Andrew Saltman to SVP of Artist Development, Sara Gil to General Manager

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RECORDS, the label co-founded by industry veteran Barry Weiss as a joint venture with Sony Music Entertainment,...

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Tencent Music is quietly building a live music empire. Concerts could become the streaming giant’s ultimate differentiator in the age of AI.

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Tencent Music is quietly building a live music empire. Concerts could become the streaming giant’s ultimate differentiator in the age of AI.

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MBW Explains is a series in which we dig behind the headlines, via data and context, to...

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