Music Business News: Switzerland News Swiss licensing body SUISA Digital sues Elon Musk’s X for ‘refusing’ to license musicThe digital music licensing group says it has tried and failed to get Twitter International to talk to them News Alain Couttolenc appointed CEO at Utopia Music as Mattias Hjelmstedt assumes role as ChairmanCouttolenc previously served as Chief Development Officer at data company Ipsos News Switzerland-based MusicBird buys catalog of songwriter and producer Alex PMusicBird secured a $100m loan facility in February 2023 for music rights acquisitions News Desiree Vach named General Manager of GSA at FUGAExec previously worked at Ingrooves Music Group News Utopia axes 5% of staff as company shuts down R&D operations in the UK and FinlandA spokesperson told MBW that, 'Utopia is currently streamlining its organization to increase efficiency'. News Utopia divests again, as Absolute Label Services gets reacquired by original leadership teamNews marks the third time this year that Utopia has offloaded a company that it previously acquired within the past 18 months Analysis Interviews News Utopia wants to be the ‘operating system’ for the music industry, and 3 other things we learned from founder Mattias Hjelmstedt’s new interviewIn a rare interview on the Dealmakers podcast with Alejandro Cremades, Utopia founder Mattias Hjelmstedt dropped some hints as to what has been happening with the company Analysis News English language music’s popularity on streaming services is shrinking in the US… and globally.English language music is becoming statistically less popular on streaming services1 2 … 6 Next
News Swiss licensing body SUISA Digital sues Elon Musk’s X for ‘refusing’ to license musicThe digital music licensing group says it has tried and failed to get Twitter International to talk to them
News Alain Couttolenc appointed CEO at Utopia Music as Mattias Hjelmstedt assumes role as ChairmanCouttolenc previously served as Chief Development Officer at data company Ipsos
News Switzerland-based MusicBird buys catalog of songwriter and producer Alex PMusicBird secured a $100m loan facility in February 2023 for music rights acquisitions
News Desiree Vach named General Manager of GSA at FUGAExec previously worked at Ingrooves Music Group
News Utopia axes 5% of staff as company shuts down R&D operations in the UK and FinlandA spokesperson told MBW that, 'Utopia is currently streamlining its organization to increase efficiency'.
News Utopia divests again, as Absolute Label Services gets reacquired by original leadership teamNews marks the third time this year that Utopia has offloaded a company that it previously acquired within the past 18 months
Analysis Interviews News Utopia wants to be the ‘operating system’ for the music industry, and 3 other things we learned from founder Mattias Hjelmstedt’s new interviewIn a rare interview on the Dealmakers podcast with Alejandro Cremades, Utopia founder Mattias Hjelmstedt dropped some hints as to what has been happening with the company
Analysis News English language music’s popularity on streaming services is shrinking in the US… and globally.English language music is becoming statistically less popular on streaming services