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
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