Analysis Robert Kyncl: The EU shouldn’t miss the opportunity to include meaningful transparency and record-keeping obligations in the AI ActThe Warner Music Group boss gives a strong message on responsible AI ahead of crucial lawmaking decision
Analysis Spotify has laid off 2,300 employees this year. That’s a shock – but also kind of inevitable.On: Promises made at Investor Days, Christmas Walks, and Daniel Ek's long-term aim for his shareholders
Analysis News From Sony Music’s deepfake takedowns to iHeartMedia’s $100m BMI sale proceeds… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpThe five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days.
Analysis News NMPA: Generative AI is ‘the greatest risk to the human creative class that has ever existed’Everything we learned from the National Music Publishers Association's US Copyright Office submission
Analysis Interviews Sony Music has issued nearly 10,000 deepfake takedowns… and other things we learned from Dennis Kooker’s speech about AISony Music's President of Global Digital Business delivered a speech at Chuck Schumer's AI Insight Forum
Analysis News Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist on Spotify in 2023, with over 26.1bn global streamsSpotify has published its year-end charts alongside the launch of its 2023 Wrapped campaign
Analysis 3 observations on… the sale of BMI (and Google’s entrance into music rights management)On BMI's fraternizing with CapitalG (aka Alphabet's fund), plus a windfall for radio broadcasters, and $100 million of money going to songwriters and publishers
Analysis The Weighting Is The Hardest PartA change in Billboard Chart reporting threatens to marginalize vinyl records and the stores who sell them, says Nabil Ayers
Analysis News From BMI’s private equity sale to what UMG thinks about AI and copyright law… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpThe five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days.
Analysis Sony Music’s artists aren’t involved in YouTube’s new voice-cloning AI experiment. Not unrelated: Google’s recent filing with the US Copyright Office.MBW Explains: On 'fair use', Sony Music, YouTube's AI experimentation and the US Copyright Office
Analysis News What Universal Music Group really thinks about generative AI and copyright law…MBW has digested UMG's revelatory 99-page submission to the US Copyright Office on generative AI. Here's what we've discovered.
Analysis The modern record industry is moving into its ‘cut to grow’ phase.On layoffs at Warner Music Group and BMG, and an upcoming cost savings program at Universal Music Group
Analysis News From superstar artist voice clones on YouTube Shorts to HYBE’s expansion into Latin Music… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpThe five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days.
Analysis WMG’s Robert Kyncl expects more artist-centric streaming deals, and 2 other things we learned on the company’s latest earnings callWarner Music Group's CEO weighed in on YouTube's new AI tool that clones superstars' voices, and said he's talking to politicians about AI regulation.
Analysis News Warner Music Group FY revenues top $6bn for first time; company’s recorded music streaming up 8.9% YoY in calendar Q3Warner Music Group has posted its fiscal Q4 (calendar Q3) and FY financial results ending September 30, 2023