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- How Jeff Waye and Patrick Curley built Third Side Music into an indie publishing powerhouse with USD $25M in annual revenues
on 27/02/2026 at 23:00MBW's Trailblazers meets Jeff Waye, Co-Founder and COO, and Patrick Curley, Co-Founder, President and CEO, of independent publisher Third Side Music Source
- Reservoir receives unsolicited $1.2B bid from activist investor Irenic Capital (report)on 27/02/2026 at 17:00
Reservoir's shares jumped as much as 15% on Thursday (February 26) following the report. Source
- From the ‘Say No to Suno’ campaign to GoldState securing ‘significant’ investment from Bridgepoint… it’s MBW’s weekly round-upon 27/02/2026 at 16:26
The biggest headlines from the past few days... Source
- Primary Wave in talks to potentially acquire Kobalt Music Groupon 27/02/2026 at 14:18
Francisco Partners mulls earlier-than-expected sale Source
- US appeals court overturns BMI rate hike on concert promoters, ruling rates were ‘unreasonable’on 27/02/2026 at 13:30
The organization's rate court victory has been vacated and sent back to the lower court. Source
- Julie Lamb promoted to Chief Talent Officer at AEG’s AXS; Jason Boxer upped to Chief Financial Officeron 27/02/2026 at 12:57
Lamb was previously SVP of Human Resources, while Boxer served as SVP of Accounting and Finance. Source
- Charles Goldstuck’s GoldState secures ‘significant’ Bridgepoint investment for growth equity fund targeting music companieson 26/02/2026 at 17:30
A source close to the details told MBW: 'Charles is looking to deploy up to a billion dollars in growth equity capital over the next few years.' Source
- The Circuit Group launches indie artist and label services arm, Beat Switchon 26/02/2026 at 13:47
Beat Switch Music Services has been operating quietly for the past 24 months, and now supports more than 20 independent labels. Source
- Suno: We’ve hit 2M paid subscribers and $300M annual revenueon 26/02/2026 at 13:07
CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman shared the figures this week, two years after the platform's launch Source
- ‘End Streaming Fraud.’on 26/02/2026 at 11:37
The following MBW op/ed comes from Victoria Oakley, Chief Executive Officer of the IFPI, and Mitch Glazier, CEO of the RIAA Source