6 Major Music Business Stories you missed over the long weekend

Believe it or not the global music business doesn’t stop for US holidays. Here’s what you missed over the 4 day weekend.

• Epic Games acquires Rock Band maker Harmonix to “reimagine how music is experiences, created and distributed.” (MBW)

Adele’s ’30’ Has the Biggest Bow of 2021 With 839,000 Album Units (Variety)

• Live Nation Among Stocks Down Amid Fears Over New COVID-19 Variant (Billboard)

• Spotify becomes latest to experiment with a TikTok-style video feed –
There’s a new Discover icon in the navigation bar (Hypebot)

• Spotify Disconnects Car View

• Dubsmash to shut down. (MA)