From YouTube’s $6bn payout to UMG’s mtheory label division acquisition… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

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YouTube experienced some massive news for the new music marketplace this week.

On Tuesday (September 13), the platform’s World Head of Songs, Lyor Cohen, announced that YouTube compensated songs rightsholders over USD $6 billion in the 12 months to finish of June 2022.

Cohen also verified this 7 days that some 30% of that USD $6 billion-plus that YouTube shipped to audio rightsholders in the yr to conclude of June came exclusively from UGC (consumer-produced written content).

Or to put it in less complicated terms: YouTube is now paying out audio rightsholders somewhere shut to $2 billion annually in ad profits produced from UGC.

Also this week, the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technological know-how Convention hosted separate Q&A sessions with Common Audio Group Chairman and CEO Sir Lucian Grainge, and Warner New music Group CEO, Steve Cooper.

All through Sir Lucian Grainge’s job interview, he commented on tunes streaming’s expansion prospective customers in the deal with of the financial uncertainty and the cost of residing crisis, and on the balance of electric power concerning the labels and DSPs.

Steve Cooper meanwhile, stated that Warner New music is getting to be fewer economically dependent on superstar artists – and needs to see “regular” streaming selling price rises.

Somewhere else this week, Universal obtained mtheory’s label division, with JT Myers and Nat Pastor appointed to operate UMG’s world artist providers enterprise, even though Tencent New music confirmed that it will be heading public in Hong Kong devoid of raising new money.

Here’s what transpired this week…

1) YOUTUBE Says IT Paid THE Songs Business In excess of $6BN IN THE Earlier Yr – WITH Close to $2BN COMING FROM UGC

YouTube states it even now has its sights on overtaking Spotify as the songs legal rights industry’s most significant partner by 2025 – whilst proper now the two companies show up to be just about holding pace with one particular one more.

On Tuesday (September 13), YouTube’s World-wide Head of Tunes, Lyor Cohen, announced that YouTube paid songs rightsholders in excess of USD $6 billion in the 12 months to end of June 2022.

That figure is substantial for a variety of factors, not least that it’s a $2 billion improve from the $4 billion contribution to tunes rightsholders that YouTube reported it compensated out in the prior-year time period (the 12 months to conclusion of June 2021).

It is also double the size of the funds that YouTube said it paid to the new music marketplace in the calendar yr of 2019 ($3 billion)…

2) SIR LUCIAN GRAINGE ON STREAMING Progress, CATALOG Bargains AND THE Equilibrium OF Electrical power In between LABELS VS. DSPS

Sir Lucian Grainge doesn’t do lots of interviews, so when he does talk publicly, it is value paying near awareness to the man at the helm of the world’s greatest audio rights enterprise.

Grainge, the Chairman and Chief Govt Officer of Universal Songs Team participated in a Q&A session on Monday (September 12) at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference in San Francisco.

In the course of the job interview, Grainge was grilled on his sights about quality tunes streaming’s growth probable, and the company’s approach to catalog investments.

He argued that UMG has completed “very couple of promotions,” but that the offers the firm has performed are for operates that have “defined historical past or a culture”..

3) STEVE COOPER: WARNER Music IS Turning into Significantly less Fiscally DEPENDENT ON Celebrity ARTISTS – AND Needs TO SEE ‘REGULAR’ STREAMING Value RISES

D’you know the ideal time to interview a C-suite government at a large songs firm? When they’ve currently announced they’re leaving.

That way, they can be a tiny fewer tight-lipped. A little fewer anxious about keeping the peace. A very little extra ‘mic drop’.

That undoubtedly utilized to Warner New music Team CEO, Steve Cooper, speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Engineering Convention in San Francisco on Monday (September 12).

Cooper, of program, confirmed earlier this yr that he is to exit Warner in 2023, and is now functioning the main as it queries for his successor.

The exec was usually deemed in his Q&A session with Goldman – but he also didn’t miss out on the prospect to tackle a selection of sector conversing details head-on and with stunning candor…

4) Universal ACQUIRES MTHEORY’S LABEL DIVISION JT MYERS AND NAT PASTOR TO Run UMG’S World-wide ARTIST Products and services Company

Universal Music Group just produced a gigantic announcement encompassing quite a few elements that, independently, are every single huge tales in their personal right.

The very first massive part of the news is that Universal has obtained mtheory Artist Partnerships, the label division of US tunes firm mtheory, started in 2010 by widely revered executives, JT Myers and Nat Pastor.

Among the several motives that UMG’s deal with mtheory is specially attention-grabbing is that UMG hasn’t produced a significant firm acquisition in some time.

The offer also correctly serves as an ‘acqui-hire’, with mtheory’s founders currently being appointed as Co-CEOs of a new world division called Virgin Tunes Group that consolidates UMG’s artist services businesses…

5) Confirmed: TENCENT Songs TO GO General public IN HONG KONG Without the need of Elevating NEW Resources

Tencent Audio Leisure has verified that it is launching a secondary listing in Hong Kong by way of introduction, that means that the corporation will not elevate new cash or concern new shares as opposed to in common IPOs.

The Chinese new music streaming large, which operates QQ Music, Kugou and Kuwo, confirmed that it will list its course A normal shares by way of introduction on the Hong Kong stock exchange’s major board, according to a media launch on Wednesday (September 14).

The disclosure confirms a report by Bloomberg on Wednesday (September 14) about TME’s approach to go community in Hong Kong…

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