Analysis News Snafu launches AI-powered ‘Snafu Song Fund’ financing for indie artists backed by $7m round led by Pophouse Entertainment New funding round also saw participation from music manager Marc Jordan through his investment fund Blue Amber Investments
Analysis News Exclusive: Scooter Braun wanted to sell Taylor Swift her masters. What happened? If you were gripped by MBW's investigation into this saga last week... buckle up
Analysis News The US recorded music industry grew by $500m on a wholesale basis in 2022. The US music publishing industry grew by nearly double that amount. Boosted by CRB result and record performance income, the US music publishing industry flew last year
Analysis News Microsoft is developing an AI rap generator, DeepRapper – trained on a large set of songs ‘crawled’ from the web DeepRapper is one of a number of projects being developed in China by Microsoft's Muzic AI team
Analysis News AI is an ‘iPhone moment’ for the music biz, and 3 other things we learned from Guy Oseary’s interview at the NMPA’s annual meeting Four things we learned from Oseary’s chat with NMPA President and CEO David Israelite
Analysis Hyper space: when A&R overreaches itself The following op/ed comes from long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde
Analysis What does the EU’s new AI Act mean for tech startups and rightsholders? Rightsholders such as publishers will likely find something to like - and tech companies may find something to dislike - in the EU's AI Act
Analysis Reliving the Taylor Swift catalog sale saga (and following the money…) MBW uncovers exclusive facts about the buying and selling of the catalog of the world's biggest megastar
Analysis News Music publishers sue Twitter for $250m+ alleging ‘rampant infringement of copyrighted music’ Publishers claim that "Twitter fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical compositions".
Analysis Universal and SoundCloud are in talks over a new way to pay artists for streaming MBW Explains is a series of analytical features in which we explore the context behind major music industry talking points – and suggest what might happen next.
Analysis News From Deezer’s AI music strategy, to who HYBE might try to buy in Latin Music… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place
Analysis HYBE is raising a stack of capital to buy Latin Music companies. Who might it target? MBW picks out 10 companies that might just be on the minds of Scooter Braun and HYBE Chairman, Bang Si-Hyuk
Analysis Why a $1 billion deal for Queen’s catalog is possible – and what CNN and The Daily Mail got drastically wrong A deeper dive into what could become the biggest music catalog deal of all time
Analysis Carving up, or growing the pie? Annabella Coldrick, Chief Executive of the UK-based Music Managers Forum, discusses the major record companies' share of the streaming pie
Analysis Why the music business should be watching Japan’s AI developments very closely MBW Reacts to recent news about AI training in Japan