Music Business Worldwide
Music Business Worldwide (MBW) is the leading information and jobs service for the global music industry. It publishes two podcasts: The weekly series, Talking Trends – which dives behind the biggest headlines in the music industry – as well as The MBW Podcast, which sees us interview some of the leading figures in the global business.
Episodes
91 episodes
With Netflix losing subscribers, is music's own streaming party over? (Talking Trends)
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide (MBW) – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the entertainment indust...
Amy Thomson: How To Fix The Music Business in 3 Easy Steps
Amy Thomson has pretty much done it all as an artist manager, and is now disrupting the modern music industry from another angle as Chief Catalog Officer of Hipgnosis Song Management. Before joining Hipgnosis in 2020, Amy ran her compan...
Spotify Just Dropped A Stat That Changes Everything...
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide (MBW) – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the entertainment indust...
Is this the REAL reason Epic Games acquired Bandcamp?
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide (MBW) – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the entertainment indust...
Why are major music companies using other people's money to buy copyrights? (Talking Trends)
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide (MBW) – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the ent...
Why Country Music Could Be THE Music Biz Story of 2022, feat Round Hill's Josh Gruss (Talking Trends)
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the entertainment industry. Ta...
Neil Young's Spotify fallout will go far beyond Joe Rogan (Talking Trends)
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the entertainment industry. Ta...
Patrick Moxey: 'I'm completely reinvigorated.' (The MBW Podcast)
On this episode of the Music Business Worldwide Podcast (supported by Voly Music), we speak to a legendary entrepreneur in the world of dance and electronic music: Patrick Moxey.Moxey hit ...
Sachin Doshi, CCO, Podimo: 'Podcasts are no threat to the music business.' (The MBW Podcast)
There isn't much about Spotify's explosive growth over the past ten years that Sachin Doshi can't tell you about in great detail.Doshi was working in business development at Universal Music Group in New York in early 2008, when Daniel E...
Why Sir Lucian Grainge got paid what he got paid in 2021... and why it's okay to be jealous (Talking Trends)
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the entertainment industry. Ta...
Spotify suddenly deletes comedy albums: Could it be sued for $100 million-plus? (Talking Trends)
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the entertainment industry. Ta...
Could Jay-Z's TIDAL revolutionize music streaming payments to artists? (Talking Trends)
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the entertainment industry. Ta...
Josh Empson, CEO, Tempo Music: 'We're slow, steady, and very choosy.' (The MBW Podcast)
Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide Podcast, supported by Voly Music.Tempo Music has been sitting on a billion-dollar-plus fund to buy music rights since 2019. This fund is bankrolled by a pri...
Why it makes sense for Warner to buy David Bowie’s songwriting catalog (Talking Trends)
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide – where we go deep behind the headlines of two major news stories affecting the entertainment in...
Meet the executive who was investing in music rights long before it was fashionable (The MBW Podcast)
It's the biggest story in the modern music business, certainly for those whose eyes are drawn to dollar signs: acquisition funds buying up music rights.From Blackstone to KKR and beyond, recent months have seen some of the world's...
What will be the aftermath of Travis Scott's Astroworld? And is Vevo the major labels' secret weapon? (Talking Trends)
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide – where we go deep behind the headlines of two major news stories affecting the entertainment in...
UnitedMasters is valued at $550 million. Should it IPO? (Talking Trends)
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide – where we go deep behind the headlines of two major news stories affecting the entertainment in...
Why did BTS leave Sony for Universal? And what's up with Warner Music Group's $10bn value growth? (Talking Trends)
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide – where we go deep behind the headlines of two major news stories affecting the entertainment ind...
What's the UK's problem with major record companies? (Talking Trends)
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide – where we go deep behind the headlines of two major news stories affecting the entertainment industry.This week, host Louise Porter and M...
Spotify Vs. Songwriters (again): David Israelite, CEO, NMPA (The MBW Podcast)
Late yesterday (October 14), the National Music Publishers' Association made the claim that a number of digital service owners – including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, and Pandora – are trying to cut the amount of money they pay songwriters in the U...
Adele's back with new album 30... but what are we expecting? (Talking Trends)
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends, the weekly podcast from Music Business Worldwide – where we go deep behind the headlines of two major news stories affecting the entertainment industry.This week, host Louise Porter and M...
What will be music's next big buyout? (Talking Trends)
Welcome to the debut episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends podcast.Each week on Talking Trends, host Louise Porter and Music Business Worldwide founder, Tim Ingham, w...
Is Timbaland about to revolutionize music production (again) with Beatclub?
Online marketplaces selling music beats and samples are big business. Los Angeles-based Splice has raised over $150 million to date, including a recent round led by Goldman Sachs.The latest entrant to this fast-growing sector comes with ...
Troy Carter, Founder, Q&A: 'The music industry has to change the business model; it's as simple as that.'
Troy Carter has seen the music business from all sides. He was the manager of superstar artists like Lady Gaga and Eve at Los Angeles-based Atom Factory; he was also an early investor in Spotify, Uber and Lyft. Now, he's the latest gues...
Biff Stannard, Songwriter: Spice Girls, Kylie and a Near-Death Experience
On paper, Richard "Biff" Stannard is having one of the toughest years of his life. But music, as it has time and time again, has steered him away from the shadows – and towards celebration.Stannard says that his songwriting style has al...
Larry Mestel, CEO, Primary Wave: Bob Marley, Whitney Houston, and Spending $800 million
Is Larry Mestel about to raise a billion dollars? Don't bet against it.Mestel's Primary Wave has already raised over $800m in the past four years via two IP funds: a $300m fund in 2016, backed by Black Rock, and a further $500m-plus fun...
Poo Bear, Songwriter: Justin Bieber, Black Lives Matter, and Being Hit By A Tornado
Jason Boyd aka Poo Bear is one of the most successful songwriters working in the modern US pop music industry.During a storied and Grammy-winning career, he's written and/or produced tracks for the likes of Pink, User, Lupe Fiasco, Chri...
Mattias Tengblad, CEO, Corite: Raising $1 million direct from fans
Mattias Tengblad is co-founder and CEO of Stockholm-based Corite, which believes it can revolutionize the way artists generate money from their recorded music.Corite is, at first glance, a simple digital distributor, in the same core sp...
Dooney Battle, CEO, Tha Lights Global: Lil Pump, Dominic Fike and Turning Down $5 million
Dooney Battle is CEO & Founder of Tha Lights Global – a record label, publisher and artist management company whose clients include Dominic Fike and Lil Pump.Lil Pump previously signed to Warner Records in an $8m deal but now, two a...
Merck Mercuriadis, CEO, Hipgnosis: Spending $1 billion on Songs
Merck Mercuriadis is Founder & CEO of UK-based Hipgnosis Songs Fund, which has acquired songs – or pieces of songs – that have fuelled hits like Rihanna's Umbrella, Al Green's Let's Stay Together, Ed Sheeran's Shape Of You, Beyoncé's Single...
