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
Analysis News From Deezer’s AI music strategy, to who HYBE might try to buy in Latin Music… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place
Interviews ‘We are witnessing a resurgence of hip-hop across Africa.’ MBW’s World Leaders series interviews Wale Davies, Sony Music Publishing's Head of A&R for Africa
News BTS become first artist to use TikTok’s ‘new release’ promotional tool, for new single ‘Take Two’ New tool lets artists highlight a new track to fans for up to 14 days before release, and for 30 days after release
Analysis HYBE is raising a stack of capital to buy Latin Music companies. Who might it target? MBW picks out 10 companies that might just be on the minds of Scooter Braun and HYBE Chairman, Bang Si-Hyuk
News Why has the Musicians’ Union in the UK declined a pay rise for its session musician members? The MU has been negotiating the rate of pay for session musicians in the UK