Welcome to Music Enterprise Worldwide’s weekly round-up – the place we be sure you caught the 5 greatest 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 cut back their touring prices.
This week, we realized that Merck Mercuriadis, the maverick founding father of Hipgnosis Songs Fund, is launching a brand new funding agency concentrating on artist administration firms and music catalogs. His new firm may even be referred to as Hipgnosis.
Elsewhere, South Korea’s monetary regulator is reportedly making ready to refer HYBE Chairman Bang Si-hyukto prosecutors over allegations associated to the corporate’s IPO.
In the meantime, Paul Sinclair, who most lately served as Basic Supervisor and Govt Vice President of Warner’s Atlantic Data, has joined AI music platform Suno as Chief Music Officer.
Lastly, Michael Nash, EVP and Chief Digital Officer at Common Music Group, delivered a keynote presentation on the UN’s AI for Good summit in Geneva on Tuesday (July 8).
Merck Mercuriadis, the maverick founding father of Hipgnosis Songs Fund, is launching a brand new funding agency concentrating on artist administration firms and music catalogs by a partnership construction that offers acts and their representatives possession stakes.
The Monetary Occasions reported on Saturday (July 5) that Mercuriadis’ new enterprise has already secured commitments within the “a whole bunch of tens of millions” of {dollars}, citing folks acquainted with the matter.
The FT quoted Mercuriadis as saying: “I’m going to amass 5 or 6 actually vital administration firms, all of which have celebrity artists and celebrity managers that go along with them.
“It’s all about them having management and all about them making the vast majority of the cash [rather than labels]…”
HYBE has pledged to cooperate totally with authorities as South Korea’s monetary regulator reportedly prepares to refer the Ok-pop large’s founder and Chairman, Bang Si-hyuk, to prosecutors over allegations associated to the corporate’s 2020 IPO.
That’s in response to The Korea Herald, Korea Occasions and different native information shops, which report that The Securities and Futures Fee’s capital market investigation workforce voted on Monday (July 7) to refer Chairman Bang to prosecutors, with the fee set to formally contemplate the advice at its July 16 assembly.
Over200 staff of indie firms have signed an open letter, distributed by IMPALA, addressed to Europe’s competitors watchdog.
It urges the EC to conduct a “deep investigation” into Common Music Group’s proposed acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings.
The letter’s signatories embrace vital illustration from two main indie music firms: UK-headquartered Beggars Group and US-headquartered Secretly Group.
They embrace 12 executives working for firms owned or co-owned by Beggars/XL, together with 4AD, Eternal Data, Matador, Popstock, Tough Commerce, and Younger, plus XL Recordings and Beggars Group…
A outstanding document label govt is becoming a member of the management workforce of Suno, the AI music-making platform that – together with rival Udio – is dealing with a copyright infringement lawsuit by the majors.
Paul Sinclair, who spent over twenty years at Warner Music Group (WMG) in varied roles, is taking on the publish of Suno’s Chief Music Officer, a task through which he’ll “information how Suno’s AI-powered instruments are built-in into the method of songmaking,” Suno mentioned.
Sinclair spent the final a number of months advising Suno, the Boston-headquartered firm mentioned in a press release on Monday (July 7)…
Michael Nash, EVP and Chief Digital Officer at Common Music Group, delivered a keynote presentation on the UN’s AI for Good summit in Geneva on Tuesday (July 8).
This summit, which counts over 13,000 registered delegates, gathers UN choice makers, politicians, ambassadors, and different stakeholders to debate AI within the context of the UN Sustainable Improvement Objectives.
Throughout his speech, Nash supplied insights into how the world’s largest music rights firm is approaching synthetic intelligence, and why he believes “market-based options are the reply” to AI’s challenges in music.
Listed here are 4 issues that stood out from Nash’s presentation…
