News Via the Medellín Music Lab, HYBE Latin America is betting on Colombia as a hotspot for global music industry talent The HYBE backed Medellín Music Lab is auditioning and training up candidates from across industry roles including production, composition, management and marketing.
News Kygo’s Palm Tree Crew raises $20m in WME-led Series B, pushing valuation to $215m A combination of existing and new investors also participated in the round.
News NMPA names Ralph Peer II as Chair after 54 years on the board; Golnar Khosrowshahi elected Vice Chair The election followed the retirement of former Board Chairman Irwin Z. Robinson
News HarbourView leads $30m investment in Oscar-winning animation studio Lion Forge Entertainment Investment arrives three months after HarbourView secured $500m in additional debt financing from investment giant KKR
News Spotify is finally launching lossless – but it’s not part of a ‘super premium’ tier Lossless listening is rolling out to Spotify Premium subscribers
News Over 1 million artists have registered with TikTok’s SoundOn. Now it’s expanding into Germany. The launch comes as TikTok reported reaching 25.7 million users in Germany.
News Spotify says 1,000+ artists have featured in its ‘RADAR’ program, and have racked up 338bn+ streams on the platform Artists on the RADAR artist development program have sparked more than 6.5 billion song discoveries on the platform.
News NetEase Cloud Music secures deal with production company Most Contents to stream K-drama soundtracks in China The Chinese music streaming platform will gain access to over 70 Korean drama soundtracks from South Korea-based Most Contents
News Anthropic to pay authors $1.5bn to settle lawsuit over using pirated books to train AI Anthropic agreed to pay $3,000 per work to a settlement fund that is expected to cover roughly 500,000 titles.
News France-based music rights management firm 22D Music buys stake in indie publishing company Velvetica Music Deal marks 'the merger of two highly complementary players in the French music publishing industry.'
News TikTok nabs exclusive livestream of Ed Sheeran performance for superfans in New York The TikTok LIVE campaign will see Sheeran performing in front of an audience of his superfans in New York.
News Anthropic’s value balloons to $183bn after securing $13bn in latest funding round Anthropic’s valuation has grown from $61.5 billion following a $3.5 billion funding round in March.
News JYP Entertainment is hiring for AI and Unreal Engine experts to develop an ‘unprecedented’ virtual K-pop artist JYP is hiring staff with expertise in artificial intelligence, motion graphics and more
News Cutting Edge acquires AMC Studios’ full catalog of TV music rights, including compositions from hit series ‘The Walking Dead’ Under the deal, AMC Networks will continue to use the music within AMC Studios’ series “in perpetuity.”
News Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Man’s Best Friend’ breaks Spotify record for most-streamed album in a single day by a female artist in 2025 The record spent 11 weeks on Spotify’s Countdown Page ahead of its release.