Warner Music Group In The News

Using copyrighted content to train AI without permission is not ‘fair use’, US court rules in Thomson Reuters case

However, the ruling might not apply to the music industry’s lawsuits against generative AI developers

Warner Music Group completes full acquisition of Africa-based music distributor Africori

Company represents more than 7,000 artists.

Tomás Talarico to oversee Warner Music’s business in Argentina and Chile, as Managing Director, Southern Cone

Talarico succeeds respected executive Guillermo Castellani, who has stepped down from the position

Alfonso Perez-Soto and Michael LoBiondo join Michael Ryan Southern’s M&A team at Warner Music Group

Company seeks to 'turbocharge its growth' via M&A

From Warner’s Spotify and Amazon deals to Sir Lucian Grainge’s 2025 memo… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…

Tiara Hargrave named General Manager at Influence Media’s frontline label SLANG

Hargrave previously served as Executive Vice President and General Manager at Sony Music-owned Alamo Records

Warner has a new deal with Amazon Music… and 4 other things we learned from Robert Kyncl on WMG’s latest earnings call

WMG's leadership team conducted the company's calendar Q4 earnings call on February 6. MBW listened in, here's what stood out...

The major record companies lost market share again on Spotify last year. But BMG and ‘artist-centric royalties’ make this a more complicated picture than it first appears.

To understand one of the industry's favorite graphs, a few things first need to be taken into account