News Kool & The Gang’s George Brown strikes ‘multi-million-dollar’ catalog deal with Primary Wave Band has sold over 70m albums
News $500m-backed Litmus Music acquires music rights from Benny Blanco Litmus was launched by music industry veterans Hank Forsyth and Dan McCarroll with Carlyle Global Credit
News Warner to fund Web3 music projects via new accelerator in partnership with Polygon Labs Accelerator aims to power 'the next generation of innovation at the intersection of Web3 and music'
News Adele’s agent Lucy Dickins to receive this year’s Music Industry Trusts Award in London Dickins also represents Mumford & Sons, Stormzy SAULT, Cleo Sol, Little Simz, James Blake, Jamie T and more
Analysis News Snafu launches AI-powered ‘Snafu Song Fund’ financing for indie artists backed by $7m round led by Pophouse Entertainment New funding round also saw participation from music manager Marc Jordan through his investment fund Blue Amber Investments
News Tommy Mottola and Lex Borrero acquire marketing firm Arro Media, launch AM16 AGENCY Arro Media was founded by Cristina Arcay
News Viberate launches Independent Artist platform offering distribution and advances up to $1m Music data company Viberate has expanded its services with a new platform for independent musicians
News Joe Cocker estate strikes catalog deal with Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists Group 'We are honored to work with Joe’s family and be the custodians of his powerful body of work,' said Iconic President, Jimmy Edwards
News PULSE Music Group launches PULSE Records with Concord Label will be part of Concord Label Group and distributed through Universal Music Group
News Tina Davis promoted to President at EMPIRE Davis was previously EMPIRE’s Senior Vice President of A&R
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