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Here’s exactly what Amazon, Spotify, Apple and other streaming services want to pay songwriters for 2028–2032

Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Pandora, and Google have filed their rate proposals in Phonorecords V

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Catalog Is Surging On Spotify – Making Frontline Hits An Even Harder Game

The latest Tim's Take from MBW founder, Tim Ingham

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Did The Music Industry Underprice Streaming In Emerging Markets? (AKA: How I’d Spend $10k Of Mike O’Neill’s Money)

The latest 'Tim's Take' from MBW founder, Tim Ingham

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With a new CFO, three licensing deals, and $775M+ raised, what’s stopping $5.4B-valued Suno from an IPO?

The signals pointing to the firm's potential stock market ambitions and the barriers it faces in getting there.

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A US appeals court has rejected a ‘fair use’ defense over AI training. What does it mean for the labels’ fight with Suno?

The US Court of Appeals ruled for Thomson Reuters and against AI legal research company ROSS Intelligence on September 29

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An $8M streaming fraud, two plays a day. Here’s the pro-rata math behind the bot scheme – and the rule change that would have killed it.

Ahead of Tuesday's sentencing in the first US criminal streaming fraud case, MBW breaks down the pro-rata arithmetic behind Michael Smith's bot scheme.

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The Intimacy Economy: Why Music Stars Are Going Small

Charli XCX called it “anti-marketing.” MBW columnist Diana Umana argues it’s a structural shift that the biggest artists have already caught on to…

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Over 50% of a major streaming service’s tracks come from DistroKid – and other revelations from UMG’s lawsuit

UMG's lawsuit accuses the DIY distributor of "deceptive trade practices and blatant copyright infringement", and of flooding streaming services with AI-generated "slop.

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The US and UK’s share of the world’s ‘Superstar’ artists has fallen from 55.7% to 40.7% since 2021, shows Chartmetric data

Figures come from Global Music Pulse, a new report from Chartmetric, which tracks 14m artists across streaming and social services

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Here’s exactly what Amazon, Spotify, Apple and other streaming services want to pay songwriters for 2028–2032

Catalog Is Surging On Spotify – Making Frontline Hits An Even Harder Game

Did The Music Industry Underprice Streaming In Emerging Markets? (AKA: How I’d Spend $10k Of Mike O’Neill’s Money)

With a new CFO, three licensing deals, and $775M+ raised, what’s stopping $5.4B-valued Suno from an IPO?

A US appeals court has rejected a ‘fair use’ defense over AI training. What does it mean for the labels’ fight with Suno?

An $8M streaming fraud, two plays a day. Here’s the pro-rata math behind the bot scheme – and the rule change that would have killed it.

The Intimacy Economy: Why Music Stars Are Going Small

Over 50% of a major streaming service’s tracks come from DistroKid – and other revelations from UMG’s lawsuit

The US and UK’s share of the world’s ‘Superstar’ artists has fallen from 55.7% to 40.7% since 2021, shows Chartmetric data

No one’s ‘Part of the Queue’: Oasis have scrapped the general onsale for Live ’27. Here’s 5 things to know.

Independence in an interdependent industry.

5 things You Need to Know About ElevenLabs, the UMG AI partner with an $11B valuation – and big ambitions in music.

AI Will Test Music’s Infrastructure, Not Just Its Creativity

Time to go private? On Warner, Universal, and dissatisfaction with public market valuations.

The Amazon Pain Forest