Welcome to Music Enterprise Worldwide’s weekly round-up – the place we ensure 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 revenue and cut back their touring prices.
This week we obtained some fascinating Spotify-related information, with the streaming service revealing that it has seen a big uptick in conversions to paid subscriptions on Apple units, ever since Apple was ordered by a courtroom order to permit third-party app builders to direct customers to fee methods 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 obtained phrase this week that Common Music Group‘s Latin artist providers firm World Expertise Companies (GTS) has acquired Latin music administration firm RLM (Rosa Laguarrige Administration), which will probably be built-in into GTS.
Elsewhere, a information report out of South Korea pointed to the doable subsequent goal of Ok-pop big HYBE‘s world enlargement: India.
And nearer to residence, MBW revealed its new Music Enterprise Jobs platform, connecting trade professionals with high profession alternatives.
Spotify co-founder Martin Lorentzon has offloaded a mountain of shares within the streaming big.
On Wednesday, Could 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 by his holding firm Rosello Co. Ltd, based on 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 (Could 16), which was filed with the SEC underneath his full title, Sven Hans Martin Lorentzon, as an alternative of his holding firm Rosello…
Common Music Group-owned Latin artist providers company World Expertise Companies (GTS) has acquired outstanding Latin music administration firm RLM (Rosa Lagarrigue Administration).
GTS stated on Monday (Could 19) that since RLM’s founding in 1980, the Spain-headquartered administration firm “has been a benchmark within the improvement 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 group, which will probably be built-in into the corporate…
Spotify stated its iOS app replace, permitted by Apple earlier this month, drove “a big enhance” in conversions from free to Premium subscriptions.
On Could 2, Spotify stated Apple permitted 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 units at the moment are ready to make use of different fee choices past Apple Pay. Beforehand, apps had been barred from mentioning various fee choices or indicating that exterior funds is likely to 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 the planet is HYBE planning to broaden to subsequent?
The reply could have arrived by way of a current story printed 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…
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MBW’s Weekly Spherical-Up is supported by Centtrip, which helps over 500 of the world’s best-selling artists maximise their revenue and cut back their touring prices.Music Enterprise Worldwide
