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This week we bought some fascinating Spotify-related information, with the streaming service revealing that it has seen a big uptick in conversions to paid subscriptions on Apple units, ever since Apple was ordered by a court docket order to permit third-party app builders to direct customers to fee programs outdoors the Apple Retailer.
Additionally in Spotify information, regulatory filings confirmed that firm co-founder Martin Lorentzon bought a whopping $666 million of his Spotify shares within the house of every week.
We additionally bought phrase this week that Common Music Group‘s Latin artist companies firm International Expertise Companies (GTS) has acquired Latin music administration firm RLM (Rosa Laguarrige Administration), which will probably be built-in into GTS.
Elsewhere, a information report out of South Korea pointed to the doable subsequent goal of Ok-pop large HYBE‘s international enlargement: India.
And nearer to house, MBW revealed its new Music Enterprise Jobs platform, connecting trade professionals with high profession alternatives.
Spotify co-founder Martin Lorentzon has offloaded a mountain of shares within the streaming large.
On Wednesday, Could 21, Lorentzon bought 1 million shares at Tuesday’s closing value of $658.60 per share, elevating a complete of $658.6 million. That’s proper: practically $659 million in ONE GO.
The sale was executed by means of his holding firm Rosello Co. Ltd, in accordance with a submitting with the US Securities and Change Fee, noticed by MBW.
The divestment got here simply 5 days after Lorentzon unloaded one other 11,275 shares for $7.3 million on Friday (Could 16), which was filed with the SEC beneath his full identify, Sven Hans Martin Lorentzon, as an alternative of his holding firm Rosello…
Common Music Group-owned Latin artist companies company International Expertise Companies (GTS) has acquired distinguished Latin music administration firm RLM (Rosa Lagarrigue Administration).
GTS stated on Monday (Could 19) that since RLM’s founding in 1980, the Spain-headquartered administration firm “has been a benchmark within the growth of inventive expertise worldwide”.
Led by founder Rosa Lagarrigue, the corporate has labored with artists like Miguel Bosé, Mecano, Alejandro Sanz, Raphael, Sara Baras, Rozalén, and Marlena, amongst others.
Lagarrigue will be a part of the GTS management as International Government Vice President, alongside the RLM workforce, which will probably be built-in into the corporate…
Spotify stated its iOS app replace, authorised by Apple earlier this month, drove “a big improve” in conversions from free to Premium subscriptions.
On Could 2, Spotify stated Apple authorised its app up to date within the US, a transfer that was prompted by a federal court docket ruling that discovered Apple in “willful violation” of a earlier injunction in opposition to its App retailer practices.
Spotify customers on Apple units are actually ready to make use of different fee choices past Apple Pay. Beforehand, apps had been barred from mentioning various fee choices or indicating that exterior funds could be much less safe.
Spotify is among the many first to replace its app, the results of a authorized battle that started with Epic Video games’ 2020 lawsuit difficult Apple‘s app distribution insurance policies…
HYBE is changing into a very international leisure large.
Over the previous few years, the South Korea-born Ok-Pop agency has expanded into Japan, adopted by the United States and, most not too long ago, Latin America.
However the firm’s international ambitions clearly don’t cease there. The large query is, the place on this planet is HYBE planning to broaden to subsequent?
The reply might have arrived through a latest story revealed by South Korean information company Yonhap, which, citing sources within the funding group, reported that HYBE is planning to determine an workplace in Mumbai, India…
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