February, 2025

‘Our strategy involves pulling every lever possible to maximize an artist’s career.’
MBW's Trailblazers series meets Leander Kirschner, founder and CEO of Berlin-based independent music company Bamboo Artists. Source...

Duetti raises $200m in debt funding; expands into publishing catalog deals for indie artists and songwriters
Company’s total raised to date – including equity financing, debt financing, and asset-backed securities (ABS) sales – comes to $435m Source...

Hazel Savage joins electronic music education platform Syntho as CEO
Platform was founded by DJ and producer Josh Baker in 2020 Source...

Superstruct’s UK company revenues jumped 26% to $222m in 2023 – the year before firm was acquired by KKR in a $1.4bn deal
Company swung to an operating loss of £33.26 million Source...

Saudi Arabia’s MDLBEAST unveils ‘A Thousand And One’ festival concept featuring electronic music, immersive storytelling
The creator of the XP Music Futures conference will host the new festival concept in April in Riyadh. Source...

AI unicorn Anthropic raises another $3.5bn, boosting valuation to $61.5bn
The Series E round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, also an investor in Stability AI and AI music generator Suno Source...

Create Music Group acquires deadmau5 and mau5trap Records catalogs in $55m+ deal
The deal also includes the formation of a JV under which Deadmau5 and Mau5trap will release new music via Create Source...

YouTube Music hits 125 million subscribers, adding 2m subs per month on average over the past year
YouTube added +25 million subscribers over the past 12 months Source...

Mercury Records promotes Tyler Arnold to Chairman/CEO and Ben Adelson to President/COO
Tyler Arnold signed Post Malone while working as an intern at Republic, while Ben Adelson signed Noah Kahan, James Bay and Stephen Sanchez Source...

Who’s about to buy Suicideboys’ lucrative music publishing catalog ?
Rumors abound after Billboard reports that duo's masters could sell for more than $300 million Source...

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