"Analytics and data help inform, but it can’t be how your decisions are all based," warns one exec. "Gut and instinct and knowledge and past experience — they all have to play a role."
The industry’s biggest label pulled its recordings and songs from TikTok earlier this year, but its brightest star is back on the platform. It’s licensing (Taylor’s Version).
Under the tutelage of Steve Stoute, the launch of Nine+ Records will allow Davido to start a new path as an executive.
"Joseph is propelling Decca U.S. into a new era," says Verve Label Group president and CEO Dickon Stainer.
UMG's label reorganization creates a new paradigm for record label market share, while Warner Records' massive quarter sees it fly up the rankings.
After its successful 90s Pop Tour, Bobo is branching out.
With the growth of the recorded music business in North America and Europe slowing, the industry will soon have to look to other markets and products to keep the dough rolling in.
Layoffs earlier this year at the record labels were aimed at positioning companies for the music business of the future. Is radio still part of that outlook?
The Los Angeles-based label/distributor behind physical releases by ATEEZ and P1Harmony is set to launch a new brick-and-mortar "fan space" in Atlanta.
"This partnership will take my music to new heights," the rapper says of the multi-album deal with BMG.
