Analysis News Global on-demand audio streams grew 15.1% to reach 2.29 trillion in H1, according to Luminate’s Midyear Music Report Market monitor Luminate has published its Mid-Year report for H1 2024
Analysis News Sony Music is in the process of taking control of Queen’s UK-based companies Sony Music's landmark Queen catalog acquisition is getting closer and closer to becoming 'official'
News Disney Music Group strikes deal with AI music startup AudioShake to ‘unlock new listening and fan engagement experiences’ for its catalog DMG to use AudioShake’s stem separation and lyric transcription tech
News Record labels have sent ‘hundreds of thousands’ of copyright infringement notices to Verizon. Now they’re suing the internet provider for over $2bn Record companies sue ISP for alleged 'massive copyright infringement committed by tens of thousands of its subscribers'.
News David Wolter and Miles Beard named Co-Heads of East Coast and West Coast A&R at Republic Records Wolter is based in New York, while Beard is based in Los Angeles
News Universal Music Australia launches not-for-profit record label Irruk Birruk to bring indigenous artists and music to a wider audience UMG describes the new label as an "industry-first move towards making Indigenous music more accessible"
News Warner Music Japan Chief Operating Officer Kazuhiro Shimada exits Shimada joined Warner Music Japan in November 2022
News Lenzo Yoon, one of the key execs behind the rise of BTS, is leaving HYBE (report) Exec joined the company in 2010 as Head of Strategic Planning
Analysis News Songwriter groups hail ‘landmark victory’ as US Copyright Office issues rule confirming how termination rights apply to streaming royalties Rule clarifies that songwriters are entitled to collect mechanical royalties from streaming platforms after they reclaim their rights
News Warner Music Balkans office launched by Warner Music South East Europe JV is a collaboration between WM SEE, Croatian label Dancing Bear, Serbian label Mascom and Slovenian label NIKA
News Believe buys 25% stake in Global Records, which claims to be the biggest indie music company in Central and Eastern Europe Global achieved over 6bn streams across all platforms in 2023 and over 20bn streams for its global catalog to date
News Primary Wave strikes music rights deal with songwriter and musician Keith Forsey Primary Wave has acquired Forsey's writer’s and producer shares
Interviews ‘Songwriters and publishers should be seeing a larger slice of the digital pie.’ MBW's World Leaders series meets Spek, PopArabia's Founder and Chief Executive Officer, and Reservoir's Executive Vice President of International and Emerging Markets
News Sony Music’s mystery Queen catalog co-investor is Apollo, say sources News comes after Apollo teamed with Concord in failed $1.5 billion bid for Hipgnosis Songs Fund
News Cardi B accused of copyright infringement over ‘Enough (Miami)’ Lawsuit was filed in Texas on July 3 by musicians Joshua Fraustro and Miguel Aguilar