News Sony Music acquires Cobalt Music, one of the most prominent homegrown independent labels in Greece Investment marks the re-establishment of Sony Music Entertainment Greece
Analysis News Live Nation just majority-acquired a Hollywood influencer management company. Here’s why that matters. Company currently represents 25 clients, who, together, have nearly 200 million combined social media followers
News Katie Kerkhover to lead A&R Frontline Recordings across North America for BMG BMG has promoted Katie Kerkhover to Senior Vice President, A&R, Frontline Recordings, North America
News Reservoir acquires rights to catalog of Grammy-winning Lion King composer Lebohang Morake South African composer strikes music rights deal with Reservoir Media
News BMG parent Bertelsmann partners with ElevenLabs, plans AI-generated music features "These tools don’t replace creators — they save time for the creative work that matters most," ElevenLabs says
News Sony Music sued by Patrick Moxey’s Ultra Music Publishing for alleged copyright infringement; publisher claims the major is committing ‘piracy’ of its IP The lawsuit claims: 'Despite their lack of licenses, the Sony Defendants engage in knowing, willful, and utterly inexcusable copyright infringement of the Ultra Compositions.'
News HYBE and Chairman Bang Si-hyuk under investigation by South Korea’s financial regulator over ‘secret’ shareholder contracts in IPO (report) HYBE allegedly made a nearly $340 million profit off an agreement with private equity firms that was apparently not disclosed to investors
News Are Spotify’s changes to third-party developer access meant to combat AI scraping? Third-party app developers have been cut off from numerous data points within Spotify's platform
News Fortnite’s ‘Remix: The Finale’ concert draws over 14M players, breaking records Fortnite has set a new milestone, drawing 14.3 million concurrent players for its 'Remix: The Finale' virtual concert on November 30
News Lunar Client partners with STYNGR to bring licensed music to Minecraft Through the Lunar Client Launcher, players will be able to stream music from major labels directly within Minecraft
News Azi Eftekhari named Chief Operating Officer at Sony Music UK Eftekhari joins Sony Music after serving two years as Co-President of Universal Music’s Catalogue Division
Analysis News From Drake’s legal action to Spotify execs’ big cash-out… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
News Bruno Mars just shattered Spotify’s monthly listeners record… and he hasn’t even got a new album out. Mars currently has more than 135 million monthly listeners on the platform, way ahead of the previous record set by The Weeknd
News NewJeans just held a press conference to announce they’ve left HYBE’s ADOR… but the K-Pop giant says their deal is still ‘in full effect’ "Staying at the agency will only prolong our psychological pain and waste our time," group member Hanni said
News GoldState Music buys catalogs from CatchPoint Rights, AMR Songs for $200m (report) GoldState has strategically targeted music publishing and royalty income streams that offer steady returns