Kobalt Music's Director, Licensing Operation Chelsea Johnson has joined Meta as Publishing Operations Lead for North America. Johnson announced two weeks ago her departure from Kobalt after over 12 years with the company. "I’m so excited to continue to work closely with so many of you. Gaining experience on the DSP side has been extremely important to me in my growth and curiousity on how music, digital continue to grow together," wrote Johnson, who joined Kobalt in 2013, in a LinkedIn post. S...

Rights-tech platform ClicknClear has signed a global licensing agreement with Universal Music Group (UMG), providing athletes with the ability to license music from UMG’s repertoire to accompany choreographed routines in a wide variety of sport. "While sporting venues generally clear the public performance of music at events, to date there has been no online platform offering athletes a route to obtain the rights required to use music in choreographed routines," explained ClicknClear, which has...

Independent production music company Sonoton Music is launching a VIP sample curation service, named Sample People, which will function as an invite-only VIP club. Members of the club will receive a curated playlist service, easy clearance to sample tracks from Sonoton’s library and pre-sorted, timed and quantised loops. The service will launch "in the first few months of this year," "Sonoton is working through its entire catalogue of archive material and new recordings to create loop packs spec...