News Anghami’s subscriber base grows 17% in Q3 2023, to 1.73M The Middle East and North Africa-focused music streaming service has seen ad revenue soar by 28%.
News Social music marketing startup Breakr raises $1.9m in fresh capital Company has raised $8.7 million to date and has reportedly paid out $3.5 million to creators
News Microsoft’s AI chatbot Copilot can now compose songs from text prompts via integration with generative music app Suno Copilot users can now input simple verbal prompts, and Suno will produce a song for them, complete with lyrics, instrumentals and even singing voices.
News LyricFind acquires Rotor Videos and partners with CD Baby, expanding video creation push The lyric-licensing company is significantly expanding its video creation tools with the acquisition of Belfast-based Rotor Videos.
News European Music Managers Alliance deepens partnership with YouTube Music EMMA is an umbrella group of music manager organizations across Europe, representing some 2,000 managers.
News Grimes partner CreateSafe inks AI music creation and distribution partnership with SOUNDS.STUDIO SOUNDS.STUDIO will integrate TRINITI's AI technology into its platform, allowing users to create and distribute music all in one place.
News Will Jennings, lyricist behind ‘My Heart Will Go On’ and ‘Tears in Heaven’, sells catalog to Lance Freed and Fuji Music The acquisition was made through an exclusive joint venture between Freed’s new publishing company, All Clear Music, and Fuji Music.
News Spotify and Deezer slam French government’s plans to introduce a ‘music streaming tax’ in the market Both Sweden-headquartered Spotify and France-headquartered Deezer have come out against the tax, likely to be 1.75% of streaming revenues
News Warner Music partners with MediMusic, marking its first music therapy deal The collaboration aims to harness the power of music to ease pain, anxiety and stress through clinical trials of personalized playlists.
News NetEase Cloud Music strikes partnership with Japanese music distributor SPACE SHOWER FUGA SPACE SHOWER FUGA will gain access to NCM’s large user base, while NCM will be able to offer its users an even wider selection of Japanese music.
News Tuned Global partners with newly launched Web3 music streaming platform Sona Tuned Global will provide recently-launched streaming startup Sona with content delivery tools and reporting services.
News LimeWire unwraps AI Music Studio for crafting ‘fully ownable’ AI-generated tracks The former illicit file-sharing platform has been reborn as an NFT marketplace and AI content generation platform.
News Ex-SM Entertainment CEO’s TITAN CONTENT to open global auditions for ‘next wave of global K-Pop superstars’ Auditions will begin in various locations in North America and Australia in January, the company says.
News Spotify won’t be pulling its service from Uruguay after all Uruguay's government has clarified that rightsholders, and not Spotify, will be responsible for ensuring "equitable remuneration" for artists.
News Karol G is the ‘Most Watched Artist’ on Vevo globally for the third consecutive year, with 4.7bn views in 2023 Taylor Swift claimed the title of Vevo's ‘Most Watched Artist’ in the US for 2023 with 649.5m views