News Andrew Klein promoted to President of Global Partnerships at AEG Presents AEG describes Klein as a recognized pioneer in the field of “merging brands with bands”
News Gabz Landman promoted to Senior Vice President, A&R at Warner Chappell Landman has worked with such prominent artists and songwriters as Laufey, Amy Allen, and Dua Lipa
News HYBE’s AI voice cloning company Supertone unveils text-to-speech tool that can create a custom voice ‘in just 10 seconds’ Supertone says its tool includes safeguards to prevent it from being used in deepfakes
News Record companies in India want to join a lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI News organizations, book publishers, and now music companies want to join a copyright infringement suit against OpenAI being heard by a court in Delhi
News Is DeepSeek training its AI on copyrighted music without permission? The international trade group for music publishers says DeepSeek replicates the entire lyrics to copyrighted songs
News UK industry hub Tileyard launches ‘Secret Source’ podcast featuring prominent guests from music, media, and tech Tileyard has attracted such major music industry players as BPI, Hipgnosis, CD Baby, FUGA, Lilly Allen, and Noel Gallagher
Analysis News From the ‘fair use’ win for Reuters to ByteDance building an AI music beast… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
News BMI urges songwriters, publishers to speak out against ‘additional regulation of PROs’ amid US Copyright Office inquiry The PRO has accused music licensees of 'false and misleading' claims about the nature of royalty collections
News Universal Music Group and Music Health Alliance launch Music Industry Mental Health Fund The new initiative builds on a program that has helped some 1,000 UMG artists and songwriters access health care
News TikTok: 84% of songs that entered Billboard’s Global 200 chart in 2024 went viral on our platform first TikTok users are much likelier to be superfans than the general population, research from TikTok and Luminate has found
Analysis News Using copyrighted content to train AI without permission is not ‘fair use’, US court rules in Thomson Reuters case However, the ruling might not apply to the music industry’s lawsuits against generative AI developers
News Ex-Spotify CFO Barry McCarthy has sold $49m in company stock over the past three months, as Daniel Ek’s share sales hit $94m in 2025 alone Spotify's stock price has been hitting record highs, propelling the company to a valuation of over $125 billion
News Laura Gonzalez promoted to VP Marketing at Disney Music Group A 17-year veteran of DMG, Gonzales previously served as the company's Director of Marketing
News After multimillion dollar acquisition spree, ATC annual revenues grow 107% – as it eyes listing on London Stock Exchange The company also said it's planning to fully acquire its live-streaming partner Driift
News Streaming service Mdundo reports 45% surge in subscription revenue as it sets sights on users outside Africa The company now counts 38.8 million monthly active users, up by 26% over the past year