And The Update Is...February 7th, 2022

And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

And The Writer Is

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🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Your weekly update with industry news and happenings from ATWI. Update for the week of February 7th, 2022.

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0:00.0	Welcome to and the update is I'm your host Paige McDonald and this is your weekly music
0:22.9	industry update. 19-year-old Sadie Jean has signed with CAA for bookings. The UK-born artist
0:32.4	management company Various Artist Management has increased its presence in the U.S. with a new
0:37.8	office in Los Angeles. Mike Alexander has been appointed to General Manager of the Universal Music Group
0:45.1	label Island Records. Anita has signed with UTA for bookings. Warner Chapel Music has
0:53.7	signed a worldwide excluding Belgium sub-publishing administration deal with the estate of iconic
0:59.6	Belgian singer-songwriter actor and director Jacques Brow. Sony Music Publishing has launched a
1:06.9	program called songwriter assistant which will provide its global roster of songwriters and
1:10.9	composers with access to free confidential counseling services as well as wellness resources.
1:17.9	Neil Young, Johnny Mitchell and others have pulled their albums from Spotify this week in protest
1:22.7	of the Spotify controversy surrounding COVID misinformation on the platform.
1:29.0	Downtown Music Holdings owned B2B distributor FUGA has inked a deal with independent music company
1:35.2	mascot label group. The Amazon-owned live streaming platform Twitch has struck a new agreement
1:41.7	with independent label agency Merlin. Downtown Music Holdings has expanded its legal and business
1:48.7	affairs team with two senior executive appointments. Sony Music Entertainment and Sony Pictures
1:55.2	Entertainment have launched a new joint venture called Sony Entertainment Talent Ventures India,
2:00.5	also known as SETVI, which is a new entertainment company focusing on creating ventures for media
2:06.6	talent in India. According to Spotify's new financial results published, their global premium
2:14.0	subscriber base grew to 180 million in quarter four of 2021. Primary Wave Music has acquired what
2:21.8	it says is an additional stake in deaf leopards music publishing catalog as well as the band's master
2:27.3	royalty income stream. Warner Music Group is ramping up its activity in the NFT world.
2:35.8	Cobalt Music founder Willard Audrex has been named as an investor in a new $200 million
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