News Music streaming service ROXi, backed by U2’s Adam Clayton, secures management buyout (report) The assets of MagicWorks, ROXi’s parent company, transferred to a newly formed entity called FastStream Interactive, Sky News reports
News Bruno Crolot to leave Spotify for a role at Believe Exec originally joined Spotify as General Manager for France and Benelux in 2016
News Universal’s GTS acquires Latin Music management company RLM The company was founded by Rosa Lagarrigue in 1980
News Recognition Music forms Senior Advisory Group, welcoming Matt Spetzler as Chairman, plus Lisa Alter and David H Johnson as members Spetzler is the founder of Jamen Capital and a veteran technology and media investor
News TikTok launches album campaigns for Jin of BTS, Avicii and Måneskin’s Damiano David TikTok has unveiled three new artist campaigns
News Ed Sheeran urges US Supreme Court to reject appeal of ‘Thinking Out Loud’ copyright case Overruling a lower court’s decision could lead to “rampant” speculative copyright lawsuits, Sheeran’s lawyers argue
News Live Nation begins operating its first venue in Colombia, in partnership with Grupo Páramo The concert giant's strategy of building high-quality venues in underserved markets has taken another step forward
News UMG is hiring for a Vice President, Global Head of Fraud Prevention UMG job ad describes the position as a "critical role".
Interviews Key Songs In The Life of… Isabel Garvey The former Abbey Road Studios MD who joined Tony Harlow's Warner Music UK team as COO two years ago selects the tracks that have inspired and sustained her life and career so far...
News Live Nation and AEG face probe over pandemic refund policies (report) Prosecutors are weighing bringing charges against Live Nation and CEO Michael Rapino, Bloomberg reported
Analysis News From Trump firing top copyright official to SoundCloud ‘fixing’ AI policy… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
News Anthropic lawyers apologize to court over AI ‘hallucination’ in copyright battle with music publishers Anthropic's lawyers say the Claude chatbot didn't invent a research paper out of thin air, but it did mis-name the paper and its authors
Analysis News Live Nation has already sold 100m tickets in 2025 so far – compared to 98m sold in all of 2019 Live Nation CFO Joe Berchtold talks about pricing, facing a potential economic slowdown, and fixing the company's public relations headaches
News Court should reject Drake’s ‘dangerous’ assumption that rap lyrics are factual in case against UMG, scholars argue Diss tracks 'are understood by audiences not to represent factual assertions about the opposing artist,' the scholars argue
News Reservoir subsidiary PopIndia strikes its first catalog deal with Musicraft Entertainment acquisition Deal arrives a month after the launch of Reservoir Media's newly established Mumbai subsidiary