US independent distributor Secretly Distribution, part of Secretly Group, has acquired data and analytics company Babel Ops. The agreement, the terms of which were not disclosed, includes Entertainment Intelligence (Ei), the company founded in 2014 by music executive Erik Gilbert and IT leader Greg Delaney, who went on to found Babel Ops together in 2020. Ei provides bespoke data and analytics tools for music business clients in the independent sector. Enterlytics by Ei powers reporting for ove...

Brazilian rights society UBC (Brazilian Union of Composers) has joined the Virtual Recording Database (VRDB) platform developed by SCAPR, the Societies’ Council for the Collective Management of Performers’ Rights.

The VRDB is an international and centralised data platform that enables neighbouring rights organisations to accurately document the repertoire they represent and share their local usage lists with other collective management organisations (CMO). UBC has already started working in p...

Warner Music Group has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Revelator, the B2B music platform for the global independent sector. The transaction, the terms of which have not been disclosed, is subject to customary conditions and is expected to close next quarter. WMG did not provide details regarding Revelator’s integration with WMG post-closing, except to state that the acquisition “will transform the suite of services that WMG labels and [distribution and service...