Analysis News HYBE acquires fake voice AI company Supertone in $32m deal (report) Supertone generated global media attention in January 2021 with its so-called Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) technology.
News Song data startup Session, co-founded by Max Martin, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, Niclas Molinder, strikes partnership with SoundCloud Session Studio is embedded within DAWs to capture song information and data at the point of creation
News Country superstar Blake Shelton sells catalog to Influence Media Partners Catalog ahs sold more than 10m albums worldwide to date
News Ralph W. Peer named Managing Director, peermusic Australia Exec will also continue directing peermusic initiatives as their Vice President of peermusic’s African and Middle East operations
News BMG’s Global Head of Catalog Recordings, Peter Stack, to step down at end of 2022 Stack joined BMG in 2014 following the company's acquisition Union Square Music
Analysis News Still convinced that TikTok isn’t turning into a record company? ByteDance is hiring for A&R Manager positions in four key North American cities
News Apple Music reaches 100m song milestone. Rival Spotify has ‘over 80m’ on its own platform 'We’ve gone from 1,000 songs in your pocket to 100,000x that on Apple Music,' says Apple Music’s Global Head of Editorial Rachel Newman
News Soulwax’s classic 2ManyDJs album is finally coming to Spotify – kicking off the 40th anniversary celebrations of [PIAS] Kenny Gates and Michel Lambot launched [PIAS] in 1982
News UK music licensing company PPL paid out $16.4m of international revenue to performers and rightsholders in Q3 PPL says that its Q3 payout total is made up of international revenues collected from 73 CMOs worldwide
Analysis News From Concord buying Phil Collins + Genesis bandmates catalogs to Pophouse’s Avicii rights deal… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up Our biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip
News Paul Hourican promoted to Global Head of Music Operations at TikTok He was previously Head of Music Operations, UK & EU
News Deezer-backed livestreaming startups Driift and Dreamstage merge, backed by $4.3m investment from Deezer Deezer becomes the largest shareholder of Driift.
News Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, and Tony Banks of Genesis sell rights to Concord in $300m deal Company says the 'combined music catalogs of Genesis and these three artists are some of the most commercially successful of all time'
News The Weeknd-backed personalized song creation startup Songfinch raises $17m in Series A round Latest round brings the company’s total funding to-date to $21.8 million
News Get ready for Netflix series about Spotify, a ‘fictionalized account’ of the streaming platform’s rise Series to be released on Netflix on October 13