News Primary Wave and D2C platform Game My Fan team up on Reactional Music-powered album games Revenue will be split equally between the platform and artists, while Primary Wave maintains control over release dates, timing, marketing, and pricing.
News Spotify rolls out feature that lets users transfer playlists from rival music services The integration with TuneMyMusic will let users copy their playlists from outside platforms directly into their Spotify libraries.
News TikTok owner ByteDance’s valuation hits $480bn after share sale (report) Seven bidders participated in an auction that pushed TikTok's valuation up by 45% from the initial price of up to $360 billion.
News TikTok is testing limiting AI-generated content in user feeds Users can adjust a slider to increase or decrease the amount of AI content they see.
News Reservoir acquires Bertie Higgins catalog The deal includes publishing and master recording rights to works that include the 1981 hit "Key Largo".
News Primary Wave strikes partnership for catalog, name and likeness rights, of late jazz pianist Dave Brubeck The publisher will handle marketing, branding and licensing opportunities for Brubeck’s catalog, including sync deals for film and TV projects.
News Dynamite Songs acquires 150 tracks via deals with Eric Turner, John ‘$K’ McGee, TIEKS and Dan Harkna The catalogs include Tinie Tempah's "Written in the Stars," Avicii's "Broken Arrows," and Trey Songz's "Neighbors Know My Name."
News Aisha Salem-Howey named General Counsel at UAE’s Music Nation She will lead legal, regulatory and governance strategy for the company while also handling international engagement.
News Ticket resales above face value to be banned by UK government in crackdown on touts The move marks a more aggressive approach after ministers initially considered allowing resales at up to 30% above face value.
News Mushroom Music inks sub-publishing deal with peermusic for Americas peermusic will handle copyright registration, royalty collection, sync licensing and creative opportunities for Mushroom's roster of songwriters.
News TIDAL opens direct uploads for indie artists, but tracks won’t earn royalties TIDAL is launching a contest that will award $100,000 each for 10 artists whose work get playlisted among TIDAL Upload's headliners.
News Live Nation acquired Pukkelpop, one of Belgium’s largest music festivals. Now the market’s competition watchdog is investigating the deal. The Belgian Competition Authority noted that Live Nation already provides artist booking services and organizes three of Belgium’s largest festivals.
News Warner Music Group strikes deal with Feed.fm to supply licensed music clips for apps The partnership promises to “make it easier for developers to integrate high-quality, fully-licensed song clips through a secure, scalable system.”
News Songscription raises $5M in funding as ‘Shazam for sheet music’ platform reaches 150K users The platform currently supports piano, violin, flute, guitar, bass guitar, and trumpet, with plans to add more instruments.
News Radio streamer TuneIn acquired by Canadian media firm Stingray for $175m The transaction value is based on TuneIn’s projected sales of $110 million and adjusted EBITDA of $30 million for the 12 months ending December 31.