Billboard In The News

BeatStars has paid creators over $400m to date. CEO Abe Batshon wants 1 million musicians to earn a living from his platform

1.5 million tracks are downloaded monthly from BeatStars' marketplace of 11 million-plus beats

Primary Wave strikes partnership with estate of Thin Lizzy’s Phil Lynott

Lynott penned and recorded songs such as The Boys Are Back In Town and Dancing in the Moonlight

Luminate partners with Tencent Music to add sales metrics from China to its global data set for the first time

Luminate, Billboard’s longtime official Charts partner, will track streaming and sales metrics from TME platforms

Vinny Kumar promoted to President of EMPIRE Publishing, as pubco expands into Africa

Munyaradzi Chanetsa to run the African division as MD while Vinny Kumar leads the global team from HQ in San Francisco

UMG has struck a new YouTube deal that includes ‘guardrails’ around AI… and 3 other things Sir Lucian Grainge said on Universal’s Q3 earnings call

Deal covers both recorded music and music publishing

The settlement between Universal and Udio is a win for musicians everywhere

The following MBW Views op-ed comes from Ed Newton-Rex.

J. Cole sued by Cam’ron for at least $500K over ‘Ready 24’

Cam'ron says he was never paid for his lyrical and vocal contributions to 'Ready '24'

Peter Kurczaba upped to VP of Sync, Cleome Barber promoted to Director, Creative A&R at Primary Wave

Peter Kurczaba promoted to VP, Creative Sync; Cleome Barber named Director, Creative A&R