And The Update Is...March 14th, 2022

And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

And The Writer Is

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🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Your weekly update with industry news and happenings from ATWI. Update for the week of March 14, 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
0:22.3	music industry update.
0:25.7	TikTok just launched its own music distribution platform called SoundOn. SoundOn is already
0:30.6	live in the UK, US, Brazil, and Indonesia, and it lets artists upload their music directly
0:36.2	to TikTok and Resso. It also distributes their music to other platforms such as Spotify,
0:42.1	Apple Music, and Instagram.
0:45.9	Downtown Music has launched a $200 million fund to invest in indie artists and entrepreneurs
0:51.0	backed by BIAV.
0:54.2	Global has raised $550 million in debt to buy catalog music rights.
1:01.0	Sarah Jones has been promoted to General Manager of Warner Music Group owned live events
1:05.6	listing platform Songkick.
1:08.9	Spotify is no longer earning any money from Russia or passing that money to business partners.
1:14.0	Netflix has shut down its platform in Russia as of last week. Apple, meanwhile, has stopped
1:18.6	all product sales in the market and has suspended advertising on its app store there as well.
1:23.8	Cobalt and Downtown have also cut ties with Russia and believe continues to operate in
1:28.6	market but is monitoring the situation very closely.
1:33.9	Hypnosis has bought Leonard Cohen's catalog via Blackstone backed fund.
1:40.0	Hill Corcotus has become the first woman to receive a Juno Award nomination for Recording
1:45.0	Engineer of the Year.
1:48.5	Music industry veteran Stephyn White has been named Chief Product Officer at Independent
1:53.2	Label, Distributor, and Publisher and Pire.
1:58.0	Kelly Turner and Allison Moore have joined Downtown's board.
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