Analysis News HYBE’s CEO delivered some strong fiscal results to investors last week. Except it wasn’t him. It was an AI clone. Jiwon Park's voice on company's earnings call was actually an AI replication via HYBE's Supertone technology
News Australia’s GYROstream and DistroDirect launch GROUP SPEED artist services venture Former Spotify exec Adrian Burke will serve as General Manager of GROUP SPEED
News SESAC Music Group strikes global rights management agreement with South Korea’s KOSCAP SESAC has become one of the first PROs to move its repertoire from the long-established Korea Music Copyright Association (KOMCA)
News Roxy Music’s Bryan Ferry sells stake in catalog to Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists Group Deal arrives two weeks after the company raised $1bn to buy more music rights
News Arjun Pulijal exits role as President of Capitol Music Group The news follows the departure of Michelle Jubelirer as Chair & CEO of Capitol Music Group at the beginning of February
News HYBE acquires $78m stake in SM Entertainment from K-pop company’s founder Lee Soo Man SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo Man sells his remaining shares to HYBE
News Sony Music Entertainment Japan shutters virtual talent brand, PRISM Project PRISM Project producer cites 'considerable staff resources required not only to sustain but to further grow the brand'
Analysis News As D-Day arrives for TikTok’s Universal feud, UMPG tells songwriters: ‘They simply do not value your music’ Universal Music Publishing Group has in the past 24 hours written a new missive to its songwriters
Analysis Over 38% of music on TikTok is ‘modified’, says study that analyzed 100 million audio tracks on the platform Either pitch or speed of these tracks were altered, according to Pex data
News Cyndi Lauper sells publishing catalog and master recording revenue to Pophouse Entertainment, the company behind ABBA Voyage Deal marks Pophouse’s first acquisition from a US artist
Analysis News Universal Music Group generated over $1 billion per month on average in 2023 MBW crunches the numbers from UMG's latest quarterly earnings announcement
News Deezer CEO Jeronimo Folgueira exits Folgueira will continue to fulfill his duties as CEO until his departure at the end of March 2024
Interviews ‘Country Music is having the moment we all know it deserved for a long time.’ MBW's Trailblazers meets Barry Daffurn, President and Co-Founder of Los Angeles-headquartered music label, distribution, and rights management company, Cinq Music Group
News SEVENTEEN’s FML was the biggest-selling album globally last year, according to IFPI News arrives a day after Miley Cyrus’ Flowers was named the biggest-selling single globally last year
News Atlantic Music Group makes around two dozen layoffs to ‘achieve maximum impact’ for its artists News was announced in a memo sent by Atlantic Music Group Chairman and CEO, Julie Greenwald