Welcome to Music Enterprise Worldwide’s weekly round-up – the place we make sure that you caught the 5 largest tales to hit our headlines over the previous seven days. MBW’s round-up is supported by Centtrip, which helps over 500 of the world’s best-selling artists maximize their earnings and scale back their touring prices.
This week we bought some attention-grabbing Spotify-related information, with the streaming service revealing that it has seen a major uptick in conversions to paid subscriptions on Apple gadgets, ever since Apple was ordered by a courtroom order to permit third-party app builders to direct customers to fee techniques outdoors the Apple Retailer.
Additionally in Spotify information, regulatory filings confirmed that firm co-founder Martin Lorentzon offered a whopping $666 million of his Spotify shares within the area of per week.
We additionally bought phrase this week that Common Music Group‘s Latin artist providers firm World Expertise Providers (GTS) has acquired Latin music administration firm RLM (Rosa Laguarrige Administration), which will likely be built-in into GTS.
Elsewhere, a information report out of South Korea pointed to the potential subsequent goal of Ok-pop large HYBE‘s world growth: India.
And nearer to dwelling, MBW revealed its new Music Enterprise Jobs platform, connecting trade professionals with prime profession alternatives.
Spotify co-founder Martin Lorentzon has offloaded a mountain of shares within the streaming large.
On Wednesday, Might 21, Lorentzon offered 1 million shares at Tuesday’s closing value of $658.60 per share, elevating a complete of $658.6 million. That’s proper: practically $659 million in ONE GO.
The sale was executed via his holding firm Rosello Co. Ltd, in accordance with a submitting with the US Securities and Trade Fee, noticed by MBW.
The divestment got here simply 5 days after Lorentzon unloaded one other 11,275 shares for $7.3 million on Friday (Might 16), which was filed with the SEC below his full identify, Sven Hans Martin Lorentzon, as an alternative of his holding firm Rosello…
Common Music Group-owned Latin artist providers company World Expertise Providers (GTS) has acquired distinguished Latin music administration firm RLM (Rosa Lagarrigue Administration).
GTS stated on Monday (Might 19) that since RLM’s founding in 1980, the Spain-headquartered administration firm “has been a benchmark within the growth of creative expertise worldwide”.
Led by founder Rosa Lagarrigue, the corporate has labored with artists like Miguel Bosé, Mecano, Alejandro Sanz, Raphael, Sara Baras, Rozalén, and Marlena, amongst others.
Lagarrigue will be part of the GTS management as World Government Vice President, alongside the RLM staff, which will likely be built-in into the corporate…
Spotify stated its iOS app replace, accredited by Apple earlier this month, drove “a major enhance” in conversions from free to Premium subscriptions.
On Might 2, Spotify stated Apple accredited its app up to date within the US, a transfer that was prompted by a federal courtroom ruling that discovered Apple in “willful violation” of a earlier injunction in opposition to its App retailer practices.
Spotify customers on Apple gadgets at the moment are ready to make use of different fee choices past Apple Pay. Beforehand, apps had been barred from mentioning different fee choices or indicating that exterior funds could be much less safe.
Spotify is among the many first to replace its app, the results of a authorized battle that started with Epic Video games’ 2020 lawsuit difficult Apple‘s app distribution insurance policies…
Over the previous few years, the South Korea-born Ok-Pop agency has expanded into Japan, adopted by the United States and, most lately, Latin America.
However the firm’s world ambitions clearly don’t cease there. The large query is, the place on this planet is HYBE planning to increase to subsequent?
The reply might have arrived by way of a current story revealed by South Korean information company Yonhap, which, citing sources within the funding group, reported that HYBE is planning to determine an workplace in Mumbai, India…
Music Enterprise Worldwide is delighted to unveil our all-new Music Enterprise Jobs platform, connecting trade professionals with prime profession alternatives.
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