News Warner makes yet another move in South East Europe; acquires minority stake in Croatian label Dancing Bear Croatia's Dancing Bear is known for having signed of the region's most prominent talent
News $125m-backed Suno is being used to make racist and antisemitic music Suno users are making music with hateful messages, according to report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
News Sony Music inks partnership with India’s Maddock Films to produce soundtracks, pop singles The move comes amid remarkable growth in India's music market, and in the popularity of Indian music worldwide
News Meta’s new generative AI model can take chords or beats and turn them into songs The company will make the model available to other developers to build tools from it
News 7 in 10 musical artists dissatisfied with streaming music payouts, survey finds The level of dissatisfaction is actually lower than it was a few years ago, an IAO survey found
News Google unveils AI that can automatically sync soundtracks and dialogue to videos The new 'video-to-audio' tech from Google's DeepMind isn't ready for public release just yet
News Royalties generated by Spanish artists on Spotify exceeded $133m in 2023 Spotify data shows Spain surprisingly weak in exporting music, despite strong domestic growth
News After raising $125m, AI music generator Suno is now paying its most popular creators Suno is selling itself as a community of creators, rather than as a music creation tool
Analysis News Amapiano streams exploded by 5,668% on Spotify between 2018 and 2023 Spotify credits pandemic lockdowns for the sudden success of this South African musical genre
News Latin music star Feid hit with copyright lawsuit over sample used in ‘Ferxxo 100’ Artist Sebastien Graux alleges he was “taken advantage of" by Feid's creative team
Analysis News From Robert Kyncl’s NMPA keynote to music publishers’ FTC complaint against Spotify… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
News US music publishing revenue jumped 10.7% to $6.2bn in 2023… outstripping recorded music’s growth in percentage terms The NMPA is focusing its energy on a battle against Spotify over royalty payments
Analysis News What’s behind France and Canada’s music streaming taxes, and where could they happen next (hint: the USA?) This year, two significant music markets – France and Canada – have slapped new taxes on the revenues of music streaming services
News Former Ingrooves CEO Bob Roback named Chief Operating Officer at UTA The former CEO of Ingrooves Music Group will be responsible for overall operations at the talent agency
News Indie label 2Point9 files copyright lawsuit against Sony’s Ministry of Sound Recordings in the UK over DJ Regard’s ‘Ride It’ 2Point9 says it's been treated with "arrogance and dismissiveness" by Ministry of Sound Recordings