News PRS for Music forms partnership with The BRIT School’s music department The partnership with PRS for Music will enable the school to remain free to all performing and creative arts students
Analysis News Universal Music Group sees a future where 1 in 5 streamers pays for a ‘super-premium’ tier (and 3 other things we learned from UMG’s Q1 earnings call) MBW listened into UMG's Q1 earnings call. Here are a few things that stood out...
News Streams of Música Mexicana soared by 440% in five years on Spotify, platform says The trend is most pronounced in Latin America, the music streaming service says in a new report
News TikTok sues US government over ‘unconstitutional’ divest-or-ban law, says sale by ByteDance is ‘impossible’ The Chinese government 'would not permit' the sale of TikTok's code to a non-Chinese company, the complaint alleges
Analysis News Live Nation says forcing it to sell Ticketmaster would not be ‘legally permissible,’ and 3 other things we learned on the company’s latest earnings call Live Nation's businesses would do very well as standalone companies, CEO Michael Rapino says, but that's not the strategy
News Sarah Mitchell named SVP Rights and Royalties, UK and Europe at BMG Exec will maintain her position within BMG’s senior leadership team in the UK
News Lana Del Rey named top artist-songwriter in Q4 2023 on the NMPA Gold & Platinum Program (based on RIAA certifications) Noah "40" Shebib was named the top non-performing songwriter for the quarter
News Randy Travis returns with new song thanks to Warner’s AI experiment Travis has been struggling with limited speech for over a decade following a debilitating stroke
News Ircam Amplify unveils AI tool to detect AI-generated music Ircam calls the AI detector, targeted to stakeholders in the music industry, a "game-changer"
News Virgin Music extends partnership with distro and label services firm SRG/ILS The new agreement builds on their initial collaboration, first established in 2015
News Spotify quietly locks lyrics behind paywall in bid to convert free users to paying subs (Report) The move appears to be part of an effort to nudge more ad-supported users to switch to a paid subscription
Analysis News From Universal’s TikTok deal to Blackstone’s bid for Hipgnosis Songs Fund… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
Analysis News Live Nation revenue reached $3.8bn last quarter; attendance grew 21% to 23m fans in Q1 The concert giant's latest financial results were published on Thursday (May 2)
News Warner’s Songkick strikes partnership with ticketing and marketing company Shoobs Partnership aims to boost the visibility of Black culture events and gigs
News Concord Label Group hires former UMG execs Brad Clark and Kristen Reed to its data analysis teams This is the second round of senior hires at Concord Label Group just this week