News Songwriters drop ‘alright, alright, alright’ sample lawsuit against Travis Scott and Sony Music The notice of voluntary dismissal does not say whether they reached a settlement with Travis Scott or Sony Music.
News Spotify launches Spotify Technology to sell its internal software tools to other companies, says the brand is ‘becoming the R&D operating system’ Spotify Technology, groups four products – Portal, Confidence, Xirp, and Spotify for Backstage – under one name, with its own website.
News Special Report: Catalog's Unprecedented Surge on Spotify's Charts in 2026 Music Business Worldwide is pleased to present an all-new special analysis report, exclusively for MBW+ subscribers.
News Warner Music sues Ray-Ban and Oakley owner Luxottica over alleged use of 427+ works in social media posts The complaint alleges that Luxottica's brands set their social media videos to Warner-controlled music without a license and without paying Warner.
News Gunna launches SB THE LABEL in partnership with Warner’s Atlantic Music Group The new label's first three signings are Atlanta artists Casper Bluff, Nechie, and Dracc.
News From Sony Music’s 260,000 deepfake takedowns to Suno’s live music expansion… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest headlines from the past few days...
News Meta bans TikTok parent ByteDance from advertising on its apps in the US and six other countries The ban also covers campaigns from third-party advertisers that direct users in those markets to TikTok or to other ByteDance-owned services.
News Suno hires Ticketmaster’s Michael Chua to lead its live music team, including Songkick In the role, Chua will lead the AI music company's live music operations, which include concert discovery platform Songkick.
News Five-time Grammy winner Drake did not submit any of his three 2026 albums for consideration – joining BTS and Stray Kids in sitting out the 2027 awards (report) Sources told Billboard that the rapper did not submit any songs from Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour to the Recording Academy.
News Warner Chappell Chair and CEO Guy Moot joins NMPA Board of Directors The NMPA announced Moot's appointment a week after he became sole chair of Warner Chappell on October 1.
News Live Nation to sell $730M and €600M of bonds to refinance its 6.5% notes due 2027 The new notes will retire the $1.2 billion of 6.5% debt Live Nation raised in May 2020, during the pandemic concert shutdown.
News Spotify is expanding audiobooks to more than 180 markets and says its Audiobooks+ add-on has passed $100M in annual recurring revenue Spotify said more than 750 million people will be able to stream or buy books on its platform once the rollout is complete.
News Live Nation hit with class action lawsuits over data breach involving Social Security numbers and health records Live Nation's statement came five days after Ticketmaster customers across the US ran into problems with ticket transfers.
News Elon Musk says Grok Bot will use Suno’s AI music models, alongside Anthropic’s Claude and Midjourney Suno does not currently offer an official public API. MBW reported in July that the company was exploring the launch of one.
News Pacific Music Group expands to Tokyo with launch of PMG Japan, signs Japanese rapper JP THE WAVY PMG says JP THE WAVY is PMG Japan's first major signing and that he will begin releasing new music through the partnership this fall.
News HYBE’s Weverse Con Festival to make its international debut in India in 2027 HYBE, home of BTS, calls Weverse Con Festival its “flagship global music festival”, featuring global, K-pop and Indian artists.
News EMPIRE Publishing hires Rimas Publishing’s Emilio Morales as SVP, Business Development for Latin America Morales joins from Rimas Publishing, the company behind the publishing catalog of Bad Bunny, where he served as Managing Director.
Analysis Did The Music Industry Underprice Streaming In Emerging Markets? (AKA: How I’d Spend $10k Of Mike O’Neill’s Money) The latest 'Tim's Take' from MBW founder, Tim Ingham