HYBE has signed an expanded long-term agreement with Universal Music Group, providing UMG with exclusive distribution rights for the next 10 years.
The agreement gives HYBE’s roster of artists ...
Big Hit Entertainment has acquired Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings in a billion dollar deal.In the same announcement, Big Hit revealed it has rebranded as Hybe. The deal brings ...
Taylor Swift is a woman of her word.
Swift has spent the 18 months since her old label Big Machine was sold to Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings without her being ...
Most modern music executives don’t seek the limelight in the way that, say, Tony Wilson, Alan McGee or Simon Cowell once did.
But sometimes the limelight – or more accurately, ...
If you’ve been wondering whether nine months of a global pandemic and a year full of increasingly noisy campaigning for artists’ rights might have had any impact on the row ...
Much of the world may have ground to a halt, but it seems not even the coronavirus pandemic can call a halt to the Big Machine-Taylor Swift feud.
Last ...
It’s the season of peace on earth, but that is not the story of the music industry’s 2019. Depending on your perspective, this has either been a vintage year or ...
Around this time of year, the Taylor Swift anniversaries come at you thick and fast.
Nine years since her third album, Speak Now, every note of which was written entirely ...
Scooter Braun has finally broken his silence over the Taylor Swift-Big Machine dispute.
The music mogul – whose Ithaca Holdings purchased Big Machine, home to Swift’s back catalogue, for $300 ...
So it looks like Taylor Swift’s American Music Awards show will go on after all, after the Monday night announcement that Big Machine – Swift’s former label, which she said ...
