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Cher sells ‘range of music assets’ to Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists Group

Cher has sold more than 100 million records

27% of indie artists have used AI music tools, according to TuneCore study

Believe and TuneCore have conducted a survey of close to 1,600 self-releasing artists from over 10 countries

Utopia divests again, as Absolute Label Services gets reacquired by original leadership team

News marks the third time this year that Utopia has offloaded a company that it previously acquired within the past 18 months

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Utopia wants to be the ‘operating system’ for the music industry, and 3 other things we learned from founder Mattias Hjelmstedt’s new interview

In a rare interview on the Dealmakers podcast with Alejandro Cremades, Utopia founder Mattias Hjelmstedt dropped some hints as to what has been happening with the company

Interviews

‘Madizin Music is redefining the traditional relationship between artists and labels.’

Madizin Music Managing Director Pat Benzner on Schlager, Deutchpop and Germany's music business...

Analysis

Peloton paid the record industry more than TikTok last year, says Goldman Sachs (and 3 more revelations from financial giant’s latest ‘Music In The Air’ paper)

MBW combs through the latest iteration of one of music's most influential financial reports

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Faryal Khan-Thompson named SVP of Marketing and Community Engagement at CD Baby

Khan-Thompson joins from TuneCore where she served as VP, International

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Swedish collection society STIM’s payouts hit record $217m in 2022

The society revealed the figures in its annual report for 2022