Analysis News Microsoft is developing an AI rap generator, DeepRapper – trained on a large set of songs ‘crawled’ from the web DeepRapper is one of a number of projects being developed in China by Microsoft's Muzic AI team
News Niall Horan signs exclusive worldwide deal with Universal Music Publishing Group Horan has sold over 80 million records and toured the globe multiple times as a member of One Direction
News Iconic Tamla Records label relaunched by Capitol Music Group and Capitol CMG EJ Gaines, current SVP of Marketing for Capitol CMG, has been named to oversee the label’s roster of artists and staff
News Motown Records strikes metaverse partnership with Second Life and music for games platform STYNGR Partnership includes virtual venue and dedicated Motown Records radio station in Second Life curated by Motown and STYNGR
News Spotify to launch more expensive ‘Supremium’ tier that includes HiFi audio (report) Daniel Ek's company is reportedly readying an entirely new, higher-priced subscription tier
News AI music platform that streams fake Drake tracks raises $20m Platform features AI versions of many popular artists
News As Latin Music explodes worldwide, Chinese superstar G.E.M plans release of Spanish-language album in partnership with Warner Music Asia Singer claimed to be the first Mandopop artist to release a full-length Spanish language album
News Dr Jan Fischer appointed CEO of Warner’s EMP Merchandising Fischer’s appointment as CEO follows the departure of his predecessor, Ernst Trapp, last month
News From the Taylor Swift catalog sale saga to music publishers’ $250m lawsuit against Twitter… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place
Analysis News Music publishers sue Twitter for $250m+ alleging ‘rampant infringement of copyrighted music’ Publishers claim that "Twitter fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical compositions".
News Believe, EMPIRE, Spotify, Amazon Music and more team up to form global task force ‘aimed at eradicating streaming fraud’ Digital music companies form 'Music Fights Fraud'
News BMG acquires recordings catalog of iconic British rock group The Hollies Company says that it concluded more than 45 acquisitions over the course of 2022
News UnitedMasters expands its reach into Africa, partners with Nigerian producer Sarz to ’empower the next generation of African talent’ Partnership will provide access to 'brand and sync opportunities, and capital' for Sarz' 1789 imprint to develop talent from Africa
News Meta just released an AI music generator that was trained on 20,000 hours of licensed music Researchers at Facebook's parent company have developed an AI text-to-music generator called MusicGen
News TuneCore partners with Grimes to distribute AI collaborations TuneCore artists can distribute collaborations created through Grimes' Elf.Tech AI to streaming platforms