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From Flo Rida’s $82.6m legal victory, to the landmark streaming fraud investigation in France… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

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Amazon Music raises standard monthly subscription price from $9.99 to $10.99. (Spotify, so far, still refuses to do the same.)

Amazon had over 80 million paying music subscribers last year, according to Midia Research

UK music bodies express concern over future of ‘vital’ BBC Introducing music discovery platform

BBC Introducing is a new music discovery platform that launched in 2007

The Sony Walkman is back… as a hi-res streaming player

Sony just introduced two new devices called the NW-ZX707 and the NW-A306, which the company claims, offer “evolutionary sound”

TikTok offers cheaper ads in race against social media rivals Meta, YouTube and Twitter (report)

FT report cites advertisers, industry bodies and brands

Over 80% of Apple Music subscribers listened to Spatial Audio in 2022

Apple Music launched Spatial Audio with support for Dolby Atmos in June 2021

Dr. Dre selling music assets to Shamrock and Universal in $200m+ deal (report)

Dre. Dre reportedly nearing big-money music rights deal

‘Being a publisher in 2023 is so different to what it was previously — you can’t just sit there and hope the song’s value will be appreciated, you’ve got to do the work.’

MBW's Inspiring Women series interviews Warner Chappell Music COO and Co-Chair Carianne Marshall