News Musixmatch says LyricFind trying to ‘distract from its business failures’ with antitrust lawsuit LyricFind is suing Musixmatch, arguing that an exclusivity deal with Warner Chappell Music violates US antitrust law
News TikTok’s ‘Add to Music App’ feature has fuelled ‘billions’ of streams. Now it’s linked up with YouTube Music. YouTube Music joins Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, Melon, Anghami and SoundCloud in TikTok's music-saving feature
News Derek Cournoyer promoted to SVP, Global Digital Business at Kobalt Cournoyer will be playing a key role in striking partnerships with platforms like Meta, TikTok and YouTube
News Create Music Group’s digital content studio Flighthouse launches sports-focused Fieldhouse Co-Founder and CEO Jonathan Strauss has described Create Music Group as an "audience company"
News Germany’s recorded music sales grew 1.4% in the first half of 2025, marking a significant slowdown The country's recorded music industry trade group is urging the EU to create the conditions needed for an AI licensing marketplace
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 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
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
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 Meta rejects EU’s AI Code of Practice, even as AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI say they will sign on The EU's Code of Practice restricts how tech companies can collect copyrighted content to train their AI
News AI companies accused of ‘largest domestic piracy of IP in our nation’s history’ at congressional hearing led by MAGA Republican At Meta, 'Mark Zuckerberg himself made the call' to pirate vast amounts of copyrighted material
News TikTok launches new features for songwriters to spotlight their work The app is working to better integrate with the music community and formalize its relationship with music companies
Analysis News SiriusXM is launching a paid ad-supported tier. Will music streamers follow suit? The satellite radio and streaming company's paid ad-supported tier comes as music industry insiders are calling for DSPs to do something similar
News HYBE’s Bang Si-hyuk referred to prosecution in alleged ‘unfair trading’ probe related to company’s IPO (report) K-pop giant HYBE says there was nothing improper about the company's 2020 IPO, and plans to cooperate with investigators