News NEON16 partners with Influur to host three-day entertainment event during Mexico City Grand Prix NEON16 was founded by Latin music heavyweights Tainy and Lex Borrero
News UnitedMasters launches personalized in-app artist development feature, ‘Blueprint’ The new tool, available within the UnitedMasters app, will provide artists with guidance, coaching, and insights
News Tidal’s new ‘Collabs’ tool will give artists custom recommendations for potential ‘creatively compatible’ collaborators on the platform Artists who opt-in for TIDAL Collabs will get recommendations for other artists to potentially work with
News The MLC has paid out over $1.5bn to songwriters to date Mechanical Licensing Collective issues update on royalties paid to date
News Google to invest up to $2bn in AI company Anthropic, which is currently being sued for copyright infringement by Universal Music Group News of the investment was first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Friday (October 27)
News Jungkook smashes record for fastest song to hit 1bn streams on Spotify with ‘Seven’ Seven smashed the previous record set by Miley Cyrus’ Flowers
Analysis News Deezer added 600,000 new subscribers in Q3, and its revenues rose 5.5% YoY Deezer has published its financial results for the third quarter of 2023
News Abbey Road Studios to host third Abbey Road Amplify event The event will also be live-streamed on the Abbey Road Studios website
News Caron Veazey joins Three Six Zero’s management/entertainment partnership unit as Partner Veazey brings to the partnership METTE, a new talent fresh from the launch of her EP, METTENARRATIVE (Since 93/RCA).
News PRS for Music’s latest quarterly distribution was $288.7m, its ‘largest single royalty payment’ to date The figure represents a 13% jump compared to last year’s October distribution
News YouTube Music introduces customized AI-generated playlist art Platform unveils experimental feature that lets users create personalized playlist art using artificial intelligence
News Brazilian authorities take down illegal file-sharing site FileWarez in win for record companies At its peak, the platform boasted over 118,000 registered users
News Grimes and CreateSafe partner with Slip.stream to make 200+ GrimesAI songs available to content creators Partnership will allow creators to incorporate GrimesAI songs in their videos, podcasts and livestreams
News Shazam launches personalized in-app concert discovery hub New ‘Concerts’ feature makes use of users' Shazam history to deliver curated event recommendations
News TikTok expands into live music, with first ‘TikTok In The Mix’ concert to be headlined by Cardi B, Niall Horan, Anitta, and Charlie Puth Event is scheduled for Sunday, December 10, 2023, at Sloan Park in Mesa, Arizona.