June 2024: Larry Mestel, founder and CEO of Primary Wave Music. He discusses why buying a catalogue is the easy part, what is behind a slip in the value of […]
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UnitedMasters’ David Melhado on sync, brand partnerships and artist support
David Melhado is VP, music and marketing at UnitedMasters, where he leads a team to develop a global roster of partner artists. Here, he chats to Music Ally’s Marlen Hüllbrock […]
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The Strange Worlds of Novo Amor’s latest campaign
Independent artist Novo Amor has listeners around the world, and the campaign for his new album ‘Collapse List’ has a global focus to match that. Believe worked with geo-location platform […]
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Empire’s Suhel Nafar on glocalisation and hybrid music culture
In this Team Talk, Music Ally COO Patrick Ross speaks with Suhel Nafar, head of Empire’s West Asia and North Africa and the diaspora (WANA) division, in advance of their […]
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The Orchard president and COO Colleen Theis: “Anyone who thinks that they can go and conquer the world alone is being penny-wise and pound-foolish.”
May 2024: Colleen Theis, president and COO of The Orchard. She talks about why some type of label (or at least label-like) system remains essential for acts to get beyond […]
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Are YouTube Shorts and Meta’s Reels benefitting from UMG’s TikTok pullout?
It’s been just over two months since Universal Music Group and TikTok fell out – in a big way! – over licensing.
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DiMA president and CEO Graham Davies: “We’ve got to be careful with streaming’s success story.”
April 2024: Graham Davies, president & CEO of DiMA (the Digital Media Association). He talks about why heavyweight lobbyists like Apple Music and YouTube still need their own lobbying voice, […]
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Michelle Szeto on why superfan relationships can’t be just transactional
“There’s an ethical question about superfans. How is it right to charge people who love you the most, more money for access to you?”
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Jungle’s ‘Back on 74’ – a viral trend 10 years in the making
Jungle’s ‘Back on 74’ – a track from their 2023 album ‘Volcano’ – recently hit the milestone of 100m streams on Spotify.
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NMPA president & CEO David Israelite: music publishing must be the first thought, not an afterthought
March 2024: David Israelite, President & CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association. He talks about where songwriters are pushed to the margin as recording artists take centre stage in […]
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AIM CEO Silvia Montello: Apple Music Atmos royalty change hurts Indies
February 2024: Silvia Montello, CEO of AIM. She talks frankly about the impact of Apple Music’s royalty-incentivised push for Dolby Atmos adoption and the impact on independent artists and labels.
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Interview – Believe CEO Denis Ladegaillerie: “India is the perfect market”
This exclusive interview is taken from our recent Quarterly Report – the 2023 International Report – which Music Ally subscribers can access here in full. Distributor Believe is focusing strongly on […]
