News Greg Prata promoted to Chief Financial Officer at Sony Music Publishing, as Tom Kelly retires after 35-year career Prata will remain based in New York and report to SMP Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jon Platt.
News AI sample generator Just 4 Noise raises $1M from BADideas.fund, Sound Hub Denmark and more Just 4 Noise lets producers describe the sound they want and get “individual, unique, royalty-free sounds” that they can drop directly into their DAW.
News Apple revives the Apple Music Connect name — this time as a B2B promo platform for labels and distributors The relaunched Apple Music Connect gives label and distributor teams a single dashboard to manage the parts of a release cycle.
News Sony Music France acquires Paris-based indie label and publishing company Spookland Spookland will transition into Bleu Revolver, which will continue operating as an independent label in partnership with Sony Music Group France.
News Live Nation loses bid to dismiss DoJ antitrust lawsuit, trial set for March US District Judge Arun Subramanian granted Live Nation's motion for summary judgment on some claims while allowing others to proceed.
News AWAL strikes global distribution deal with Italy’s Artist First Artist First will offer local marketing and promotional services to AWAL artists looking to break into the Italian market.
News AI remix startup Hook secures $10m in Series A led by Khosla Ventures The startup promoted Simmi Singh to Chief Operating Officer & Chief Product Officer.
News US state attorneys general ready to take Live Nation to trial, with or without DoJ (report) State attorneys general plan to meet later this week to discuss the case without federal government participation, Bloomberg reported.
News Deezer launches ‘Flow Tuner’ to give users more control over algorithmic playlists Flow Tuner adjusts recommendations in real time instead of relying on likes, dislikes or skips.
News Apple Music’s iOS 26.4 beta introduces AI-powered playlist tool The feature, called Playlist Playground, appeared in the beta version of iOS 26.4 released to developers on Monday.
News TikTok tests letting users stream full songs through Apple Music without leaving the app The feature requires an active Apple Music subscription to access full songs through TikTok, according to 9to5Mac.
News Casey Wasserman to sell talent agency amid fallout over Epstein files (report) Wasserman backer Providence Equity Partners says it 'remain[s] fully committed' to the agency
News Sony Group develops tech to track original music in AI-generated songs (report) When AI developers cooperate for analysis, Sony connects directly to their base model systems to extract training data.
News YouTube Music rolls out AI-powered playlist generator tool for Premium users The launch makes YouTube Music the latest to offer the feature as rivals Spotify, Amazon Music and Deezer have already rolled out the same tool in recent years.
News Warner Music Group plans to sell EMP, the merch business it acquired for $180m in 2018 Regulatory filings indicate that WMG signed a non-binding letter of intent to sell EMP.