News Music industry backs reintroduced ‘RAP Act’ that would bar lyrics from being used as evidence in US court trials ‘Freddy Mercury did not confess to having ‘just killed a man’ by putting ‘a gun against his head...'
News Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos talks up ‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ as fictional groups dominate Spotify charts Seven of the top 15 tracks on Spotify's most-streamed tracks in are by virtual artists from a Netflix movie
News Nicki Shamel appointed Head of TuneCore, US Former AWAL exec joins TuneCore as company 'continues its pivot to artist development for self-releasing artists'
News Former Spotify exec Jérémy Erlich launches ALTA Music, signs K-pop star JENNIE The Los Angeles-based company has struck a partnership with THEBLACKLABEL, founded by BLACKPINK producer Teddy Park.
News Update (2): Three former HYBE employees receive sentences for insider trading on BTS’ military enlistment (report) Two former employees and a current staff at the company were fined between KRW 51 million to KRW 231 million each.
News Producer Lex Luger and Lemonaide launch ‘creator-first’ AI Model with BeatStars The Lex Luger AI Model offers music creators royalty-free WAV and MIDI loops generated in Luger’s signature style
Interviews ONErpm’s Emmanuel Zunz: ‘There are no more distribution companies, there are no more record labels. There are just companies providing solutions to creators.’ ONErpm founder Emmanuel Zunz on hitting $300m revenue, the Universal/Downtown deal, and why traditional music industry categories are dead to him
News Recognition Music Group plans $372m bond sale – as value of catalog once known as Hipgnosis Songs Fund continues to balloon Blackstone-owned Recognition owns the portfolio of music rights built by Merck Mercuriadis at HSF
Interviews Naoshi Fujikura on breaking global superstars, Japan’s culture of superfans, and UMG’s positioning in the world’s second-largest music market… MBW's World Leaders series meets Naoshi Fujikura, President & CEO of Universal Music Japan
News ‘Super listeners’ make up just 2% of an artist’s monthly streaming audience, yet buy 50% of concert tickets, Spotify says Spotify may have just identified the 'super-superfans' who truly drive an artist's career
News UMPG signs Grammy-winning songwriter, producer and musician Joel Little to exclusive global admin deal Little’s songs have amassed more than 25 billion global streams to date
News Alejandro Duque takes on dual role as President of ADA and President Of Warner Music Latin America Duque has served as President of Warner Music Latin America since 2021.
Analysis The UK government just unveiled a new ‘label-led’ initiative to improve pay for legacy artists, songwriters and session musicians. Here’s what that means… UK songwriters will be the first in the world to receive a per-diem from labels for attending songwriting sessions
News Warner Music Italy signs superstar Milan-based DJ and producer MACE MACE has produced tracks for Italian rappers including Fabri Fibra, Gemitaiz, Gué, Ghali, Marracash, Noyz Narcos, and Salmo.
News Jim King promoted to CEO of AEG Presents UK and European Festivals The live entertainment company also promoted Steve Homer to President, UK Touring, reporting to King.