Warner Music Japan will help build a marketing and label channel for Red Light artists, who include Phish and Sabrina Carpenter, in the world's No. 2 music market.
Abdo is the first cover star of Billboard Arabia.
The other honorees are actress Michelle Yeoh and architect and educator Diébédo Francis Kéré.
This week's most important music industry stories in Canada.
Female artists spent 31 weeks at No. 1 on the UK's official singles chart, fueling a nearly 13% increase in streaming for the year.
The year saw K-pop companies making mega moves on a global scale, while the catalog market remained hot.
This week's most important music industry stories in Canada.
The song was inspired by 'Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet.'
He appeared on the talent competition show earlier this year.
In the country, the most wonderful time of the year lasts for a third of it, with good cheer for all -- especially holiday song rightsholders.
