From Believe’s $600m IPO to Hipgnosis and Influence Media’s catalog deals: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up
May 14, 2021
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. MBW’s round-up is supported by Centtrip, which helps over 500 of the world’s best-selling artists maximise their income and reduce their touring costs.
The biggest story in the global music rights industry this year will be, if all goes well, Universal Music Group‘s entry onto the public market in Amsterdam.
UMG looks likely to be beaten to the stock exchange in Europe, however, by Believe – the indie artist and label services company headquartered in Paris.
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From Downtown’s $400m copyright sale to Tencent’s trouble in China: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up
April 30, 2021
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. MBW’s round-up is supported by Centtrip, which helps over 500 of the world’s best-selling artists maximise their income and reduce their touring costs.
The music industry is used to seeing nine-figure acquisitions take place these days. But the stack of cash that hit our headlines on Monday (April 26) was enough to shock even the most hardened of industry money moguls.
A new documentary about former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight and the murder of The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac will be released this summer.
Directed by British documentary maker Nick Broomfield, Last Man Standing: Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie & Tupac will be released in July. It is the follow up to Broomfield’s 2002 documentary, Biggie & Tupac, which alleged that the murders of both rappers were orchestrated by Knight.
In Last Man Standing, Broomfield claims to produce new evidence relating to the LAPD’s alleged involvement in those murders, and its attempt to conceal evidence. The release of the documentary comes three years after Knight was sentenced to 28 years in prison, after being convicted of manslaughter, which Broomfield claims prompted others to give evidence against him in relation to other violent crimes.