#TheWeeklyRoundUp - 21.07.23

Frances Moore to step down as CEO of IFPI (Music Business Worldwide) IFPI, the organization that represents the recording industry worldwide, has revealed that Frances Moore will retire from her position as Chief Executive Officer at the end of 2023. As IFPI’s longest-serving leader, Moore has led the trade body since 2010. IFPI says that Moore has agreed to remain with IFPI until the end of 2023 "in order to assure a seamless transition and help in the global search for her successor". IFPI and its National Group network represent some 8,000 members, including record labels of all types and sizes from 70 countries. A barrister by profession, Moore joined IFPI in 1994 as Regional Director for Europe, following many years representing American and European companies in the retail and electronics sector. In 2021, Moore was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for her services to the music industry. In a written statement, the IFPI Main Board said: “We thank Frances for all of her many accomplishments navigating IFPI through arguably the most demanding and complex period of modern music’s history." Added the IFPI Main Board: "At once, she has led us through music’s digital transition and the industry’s expansion worldwide, enabling a return to growth that mutually benefits artists, labels and the broader music ecosystem. "Not only has she herself been an excellent and effective advocate for labels and creators, but Frances has built an incredible team of professionals to assure that her legacy will carry on.” Moore said: “After three decades with IFPI, thirteen of which as its Global CEO, it is time for me to hang up my spurs! I have loved working for IFPI and the recording industry and feel so fortunate to have had the opportunity to serve in this role. I am very proud and appreciative of the IFPI team, both now and over the years. Every achievement has been the result of a team effort." She continued: “I have had the good fortune of living through so much of the industry’s transformation from analogue to digital. On my first day at IFPI thirty years ago, I was dealing with legislation on blank tape levies and here we are today dealing with legislation on AI!”

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Nominees Announced For Year Two Of DStv Content Creator Awards, In Association With Samsung Galaxy (SA Music News & Entertainment) In proud partnership with DStv, Samsung Galaxy, 947, TikTok, Spotify, SOL, Steyn Entertainment, LIFT and One-eyed Jack It was all smiles and selfies as the nominees were announced for this year’s DStv Content Creator Awards at Hallmark House in downtown Johannesburg on Thursday 20 July 2023. The excitement over the past few weeks has been bubbling over as hundreds of entries came flooding in before being handed over to the panel of respected judges to score. It was from these scores that the top entries in each category were determined. “Looking at the calibre of the nominees this year, it reaffirms DStv’s commitment to being the title sponsor of DStv Content Creator Awards,” says Tshepiso Sathekge, Senior Manager: Sponsorship, Multichoice SA. “As the home of entertainment and Africa’s leading storyteller, we partner with other platforms that recognise and profile our new set of narrators and talented creators from across the country. We are also excited to see which creator will walk away with the DStv Content of the Year Award trophy, the biggest category of the year,” adds Tshepiso.