Analysis Live Nation Antitrust Trial: 3 things to know as landmark case kicks off in New York court Here are three things to know as the trial gets underway.
Interviews How Jeff Waye and Patrick Curley built Third Side Music into an indie publishing powerhouse with USD $25M in annual revenues MBW's Trailblazers meets Jeff Waye, Co-Founder and COO, and Patrick Curley, Co-Founder, President and CEO, of independent publisher Third Side Music
News Reservoir receives unsolicited $1.2B bid from activist investor Irenic Capital (report) Reservoir's shares jumped as much as 15% on Thursday (February 26) following the report.
News Primary Wave in talks to potentially acquire Kobalt Music Group Francisco Partners mulls earlier-than-expected sale
News Suno: We’ve hit 2M paid subscribers and $300M annual revenue CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman shared the figures this week, two years after the platform's launch
Analysis Sony Group’s blueprint for AI music detection tech is promising. Here’s what it’s working on… MBW reacts to three research papers detailed by Sony AI.
News DOJ fires back at Live Nation’s ‘desperate’ bid to delay antitrust trial, says motion is legally barred The DOJ filed the opposition brief on Tuesday (February 24)
News Google acquires AI music platform – and Suno challenger – ProducerAI Google has acquired ProducerAI, the AI music creation platform formerly known as Riffusion, bringing the startup and its team into Google Labs.
News Donald Trump and Isaac Hayes estate reach settlement in copyright case over use of ‘Hold On, I’m Coming’ The lawsuit was originally filed in August 2024.
News Artist representatives launch ‘Say No To Suno’ campaign: ‘AI slop dilutes the royalty pools of legitimate artists from whose music this slop is derived.’ Open letter slams AI music generator
Analysis News Live Nation files to pause antitrust case for appeal, days after pulling public post calling for DOJ to ‘move on’ and settle Live Nation Entertainment asks judge to pause the DOJ antitrust case while two legal questions are reviewed by an appeals court.
News Salt-N-Pepa file notice of appeal over UMG lawsuit dismissal, with ‘Blurred Lines’ lawyer as counsel Lawsuit against UMG over the copyrights to their master recordings was dismissed in January
News Atlantic Music Group strikes joint venture with indie label Today Is Vintage Indie label was founded by Swedish music executive, artist, and entrepreneur, Rebin Shah
News Suno hires ex-Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota as Chief Commercial Officer Sirota will report directly to CEO Mikey Shulman.
News Virgin Music Group completes Downtown acquisition; Pieter van Rijn named COO as Downtown founder Justin Kalifowitz steps away Pieter van Rijn appointed Chief Operating Officer of VMG