Category: In the News
Featured / December 9, 2022
MUSIC BIZ WORLDWIDE: THE STEVE COOPER EXIT INTERVIEW: ‘ALL SUCCESSFUL COMPANIES GET TO A POINT WHERE THEY’D BENEFIT FROM FRESH EYES.’
Krispy Kreme donuts. That’s it. That’s the brand on Steve Cooper’s résumé that really leaps out and whacks you in the...
Featured / December 8, 2022
HITS: U.K. CEOs SPEAK: TONY HARLOW
Warner Music U.K. scored the summer’s biggest hit with LF System’s “Afraid to Feel,” which spent eight weeks at the...
Featured / December 6, 2022
AD WEEK: WMX EXPANDS INTO CTV WITH ROKU PARTNERSHIP, LAUNCHING 3 FAST CHANNEL
Music and culture publisher Warner Music Experience (WMX), which functions as the editorial division of Warner Music Group, launched three...
Featured / December 6, 2022
VARIETY: JULIE GREENWALD AND CRAIG KALLMAN TALK LIZZO, JACK HARLOW, THEIR BIG 2022, AND WHAT’S NEXT
Motown in the 1960s? Warner Bros. Records in the 1970s and ‘80s? One has to look back decades to find...
In the News / December 1, 2022
STATEMENTS ON THE PASSING OF CHRISTINE MCVIE
Max Lousada, CEO, Recorded Music, Warner Music Group “The loss of Christine McVie is not only devastating to all of...
In the News / November 21, 2022
FORBES: DANIELLE LEE ON WARNER MUSIC’S BIG BET ON ARTIST AND FAN EXPERIENCES
No industry went unscathed by the Covid-19 pandemic, but the music business was undisputedly hit harder than most. Concerts, the...
In the News / November 18, 2022
MUSIC BIZ WORLDWIDE: ‘WHAT I WOULD SAY I’M PROUDEST OF AT ADA IS THE CULTURE. THERE’S A WAY IN WHICH WE DO THINGS THAT, WHEN PEOPLE JOIN US, THEY SIGN UP TO.’
Before he joined the music industry, just over 30 years ago, Howard Corner was what he describes as “a record...
In the News / October 21, 2022
MUSIC WEEK: WMG PARTNERS WITH PINTEREST ON LICENSED MUSIC
Pinterest has secured new partnerships with Warner Music Group, Warner Chappell, Merlin and BMG to feature top artists and music...
Featured / October 14, 2022
BILLBOARD: HOW BURNA BOY’S ‘LAST LAST’ CONQUERED HIP-HOP RADIO
“Radio is a long game,” says Atlantic’s evp of black music promotion Kevin Holiday. Over the past several years, Burna...
Featured / October 13, 2022
MUSIC BIZ WORLDWIDE: ‘SHORT-FORM VIDEO HAS CHANGED THE WAY MUSIC IS PERFORMED, SHARED, AND ENJOYED. COMPETITION FOR EYEBALLS IS FIERCE.’
MBW’s World Leaders is a regular series in which we turn the spotlight toward some of the most influential industry...