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‘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...

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

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

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

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

The society revealed the figures in its annual report for 2022

From the Taylor Swift catalog sale saga to music publishers’ $250m lawsuit against Twitter… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place

Believe, EMPIRE, Spotify, Amazon Music and more team up to form global task force ‘aimed at eradicating streaming fraud’

Digital music companies form 'Music Fights Fraud'

Universal and SoundCloud are in talks over a new way to pay artists for streaming

MBW Explains is a series of analytical features in which we explore the context behind major music industry talking points – and suggest what might happen next.

Meta just released an AI music generator that was trained on 20,000 hours of licensed music

Researchers at Facebook's parent company have developed an AI text-to-music generator called MusicGen