News Slipstream buys Anthem Entertainment’s three production music brands, covering 650,000 tracks Slipstream says the acquisition positions it as "the largest global independent music licensing platform"
News Instagram now lets users add songs to their Spotify playlists, taking a page from TikTok’s playbook Move follows TikTok's 'Add To Music App' feature launch
News Tomorrowland Music taps BMG for exclusive global management and administration The BMG partnership adds publishing expertise to Tomorrowland Music's existing team
News US’s Federal Trade Commission finalizes ‘click-to-cancel’ rule for subscription services The new rule requires cancelling a subscription to be at least as simple as signing up for one
News YouTube unveils new features including collaborative playlists, fan badges and a sleep timer YouTube aims to keep users engaged amid growing competition from other platforms
News Apple Music now lets artists turn their set lists into playlists for tour promotion Apple is expanding its efforts to strengthen the artist-fan connection and offer promotional tools for musicians.
News Tencent Music partners with Galaxy Corp. for Korean rapper G-Dragon’s tour The alliance comes as Tencent Music expands its global presence and increasingly moves into live music
News TikTok partners with South Korean streaming service Melon to expand ‘Add to Music App’ feature TikTok recently announced the shutdown of its TikTok Music streaming service, but that's not the end of its musical ambitions
News Jean Mischler named SVP, Marketing at Downtown Music’s CD Baby Mischler comes to CD Baby from Sofar Sounds, where she served as VP of Growth Marketing
News The Circuit Group launches Circuit Publishing in global partnership with Kobalt The newly formed Circuit Publishing division will offer publishing services to Circuit Group's artist, producer and songwriter clients
News Startup Delphos enables creators to make their own AI music generators Delphos enables artists to create 'Soundworlds' that can generate music in their own style
News The Circuit Group forms artist development JV with ALT:Vision Management and Records ALT:Vision's label division, under Sony's The Orchard, has amassed 2 billion streams.
News Takeshi Okada appointed President and CEO of Warner Music Japan Okada joins Warner Music from EMI Records Japan, where he served as Managing Director since 2018
News Macron calls for fairer music streaming model after France imposes ‘music streaming tax’ The French president would like to see 'artists who have average followings' get paid more
News TikTok slashes hundreds of jobs globally as it shifts focus to AI content moderation (reports) Some 500 people are losing their jobs in Malaysia, along with potentially 125 layoffs in the UK