Analysis Vetter Gave Artists the World. Getting It Back May Be Harder Than It Sounds. The following MBW op/ed comes from Reed Smith LLP's Nick Breen and Joshua Love
Analysis News The EU AI Act’s rules on AI content labeling and training are now law and enforceable. Here’s what they mean for the music business. The European Union's rules requiring AI-generated content to be labeled took effect on Sunday (August 2).
Analysis News Spotify hits 300m Premium subscribers in Q2, adding 7m, as streamer posts $762m operating profit Spotify's total Monthly Active Users, which combine paying users and ad-supported users, reached 777 million
Analysis The Music Industry Has Priced a Customer It Cannot Find The following MBW op/ed comes from Mag Rodriguez, Founder/CEO of EVEN.
Analysis AI and Protecting a Celebrity’s voice through Trademark The following MBW op/ed comes from Music Attorneys Heidy Vaquerano and Cynthia Katz at Fox Rothschild.
Analysis What is ‘Asian Pop’? Eshy Gazit, founder of EG Management and Intertwine Records, examines 'a Grammy category nobody can define'
Analysis News Sony generated $3.12B from recorded music and publishing in calendar Q2 2026, up 12.7% YoY Michael Jackson's Thriller album was Sony's biggest-selling artist project around the world in calendar Q2 2026, boosted by the Michael biopic movie
Analysis News Universal Music Group generated $3.83B in Q2, up 13.3% YoY – driven by Noah Kahan, BTS, Olivia Rodrigo, Drake, and Olivia Dean UMG published its fresh set of quarterly results on July 30
Analysis ‘True independents will become rarer and more valuable going into the next decade.’ The following MBW op/ed comes from Samantha Moore, President of Rostrum Pacific-owned distributor SpaceHeater.
Analysis Why AI is sampling – and how that will affect the future The following MBW op/ed comes from Deborah Mannis-Gardner, Owner/President of DMG Clearances, Inc.
Analysis News YouTube’s subscription business ‘growing faster than ads,’ driven by Music and Premium, says Alphabet Platform's ad revenues rose 13% YoY to $11bn in Q2
Analysis Key Principles for Ethical AI Use in Music Creation The following MBW op/ed comes from John Meller, a Partner in the Entertainment practice at law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.
Analysis They’re Not ‘Major Labels.’ The latest 'Tim's Take' from Music Business Worldwide founder, Tim Ingham
Analysis Why a fight over 61,000 recordings could shape the future of AI music licensing The 61,026 recordings would carry a theoretical maximum statutory damage of $9 billion, up from around $84 million under the original 560-work complaint.