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Tencent Music Is Officially Prepping a Hong Kong Stock Listing
About 6 months following disclosing its intention of spearheading a secondary stock listing, Tencent New music (NYSE: TME) is reportedly making ready to make shares offered on Hong Kong’s exchange “as soon as subsequent week.” Update (9/15): Tencent Songs has confirmed its Hong Kong listing strategies, and shares are predicted to start off trading as “1698” next Wednesday, September 21st. In a different launch, the firm quietly declared that Liang Tang had resigned from the board, with a single Jeanette Kim Yum Chan (now main authorized, compliance, and possibility officer at Australia’s Airwallex) signing on as an “independent director.” An current director, Edith Manling Ngan, has changed Tang on the…
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Giant Music Officially Launches, Announces First Signing and Release
Irving Azoff has officially introduced his Big Songs document label, which was initially announced in early 2021. The formal rollout of Giant New music came to light-weight in a current Instagram post from Brooks Roach, the label’s SVP of promoting and a previous advertising and marketing exec with Dave Holmes Administration and Warner Music’s Atlantic Data. “New chapter (formally) begins right now!” wrote Roach. “Excited to share our new label with the world + make a residence where musicians are handled like men and women, instead of products. Empower Artists. Embrace Independence. Big Songs.” Integrated with this concise concept is a series of Big Songs logos in various colors, and…
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The Batman Is Officially Getting a Sequel, and More Movie News
This week’s Ketchup brings you more headlines from the world of film development news, covering such titles unveiled at CinemaCon in Las Vegas as Avatar: The Way of Water, Barbie, The Batman 2, Mission: Impossible 7 – Dead Reckoning Part 1, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, and Venom 3. This WEEK’S TOP STORY THE BATMAN SEQUEL OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED AT CINEMACON (Photo by Jonathan Olley/©Warner Bros.) We may only be a third of the way into 2022 (and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness may change the math), but the current box office champ of the year is The Batman (Certified Fresh at 86{5b4d37f3b561c14bd186647c61229400cd4722d6fb37730c64ddff077a6b66c6}) with $368 million domestically and $759 million…
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Wasserman Music Officially Acquires Paradigm UK’s Live Music Business
Casey Wasserman. Picture Credit: Rainer Hosch Wasserman Tunes has formally obtained the are living music representation small business of Paradigm United kingdom, larger-ups have introduced. The buyout of Paradigm UK’s tunes touring operations comes a tiny about a single year immediately after two-10 years-old talent company Wasserman rebranded the troubled tunes division of Paradigm proper as Wasserman Music. Wasserman experienced only finalized the fundamental invest in agreement in March of 2021, just after Paradigm experienced laid off a significant selection of its tunes agents, quite a few of whom went on to build competing agencies. And useless to say, the Wasserman-Paradigm transaction did not encompass the audio-illustration choices of Paradigm…
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Thematic Is Officially Blowing Up Musicians on YouTube
Photo: Fiji Blue’s Valentin Fritz (l) and Trevor Derin (r). Quite a few a long time ago, Thematic set out to fix YouTube’s licensing hurdles for musicians and content creators when producing a advertising platform that sent effects. Now, savvy artists like Fiji Blue are significantly tapping Thematic’s community of YouTube personalities although expanding their fanbases in the approach. If you are a material creator on YouTube, then music can be a frightening landmine. Demonetizations, silenced films, and copyright strikes are often lingering threats. In reality, the ache all around YouTube new music licensing was the complete enthusiasm for the development of LA-primarily based Thematic, a organization that one-handedly built…