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Annie Aberle has been promoted to Senior Vice President/Head of Creative at Los Angeles-based music company PULSE Music Group. The news was announced on Wendesday (May 8) by Scott Cutler and Josh Abraham, co-CEOs of PULSE Music Group and Ashley Calhoun, President, PULSE Music Group. Aberle was previously Vice President, A&R, PULSE Music Group. The exec’s […]

BMG has appointed Kristal McKanders Dube to lead its Global Corporate Communications. An accomplished communications executive and media strategist with close to 20 years’ experience, McKanders Dube joins BMG after nearly six years at Warner Music Group (WMG). At WMG, Kristal McKanders Dube led the global communications function at Warner Chappell Music (WCM), the publishing arm of WMG, including

We’ve been hearing reports for several years now that the US Department of Justice is – once again – investigating Live Nation and its ticketing division, Ticketmaster, over potential antitrust violations. Those reports ramped up last month with stories in both the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post suggesting that a DoJ lawsuit against Live Nation is imminent. On the company’s Q1

TikTok and parent company ByteDance have filed suit against the US government over its recently-passed law that requires ByteDance to sell the platform’s US operations or face a nationwide ban. In a complaint that TikTok said it filed on Tuesday (May 7) with the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the company described the

It’s hardly news at this point that Latin Music is exploding in popularity worldwide, but within that broad category, one particular subset has been standing out: Música Mexicana. In a report released on Friday (May 3), Spotify put some hard numbers to this phenomenon. The DSP reported that streams of Música Mexicana grew by 55% globally in 2023; between

MBW Reacts is a series of analytical commentaries from Music Business Worldwide written in response to major recent entertainment events or news stories. Only MBW+ subscribers have unlimited access to these articles. It’s no surprise that TikTok was a key topic of discussion on Universal Music Group‘s Q1 earnings call on Thursday (May 2). Just hours ahead of UMG revealing

Music publishing and recording company BMG has announced the appointment of Sarah Mitchell as the head of its Rights and Royalties division for Europe and the UK. Mitchell will oversee the management of rights and royalty management for much of the world outside the US, including the UK, Continental Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia, across both music

Things weren’t always this tense between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. On March 25, the former shook the foundation with his uncredited verse on Metro Boomin and Future’s “Like That,” a cut included on the pair’s freshly released collaborative album “We Don’t Trust You.” The internet immediately lit up: Lamar’s particularly fiery verse put his issues with

Taylor Swift‘s “The Tortured Poets Department” registered 439,000 album-equivalent units to return as the No. 1 album in the U.S. in its second week out, according to data from Luminate first reported in Billboard. That’s an 89% drop from its massive debut week, when it racked up 2.61 million units. But the 439K is still much

Dua Lipa dove deep into the scorching-hot rap beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar on “Saturday Night Live.” On the latest episode, Lipa appeared alongside Mikey Day, Heidi Gardner and Devon Walker as morning talk show hosts who attempt to explain the diss tracks that have taken over the music world in the last few days to their viewers. Lipa