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Primary Wave Music to co-produce documentary on songwriting legend Gerry Goffin

Goffin penned 114 Billboard Hot 100 hits, with eight of those reaching number one

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Primary Wave acquires catalog of Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt

Extreme's 'More Than Words' was charted number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the early 1990s

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How the major labels plan to cost Suno and Udio billions (and why it all rests on Michael Bublé)

The AI music companies' business model "threatens to eliminate the existing market for licensing sound recordings"

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Virgin Music Group, Island sign agreement with Carín León’s Socios Music to release new material

The first release under the new partnership has already resulted in León’s best first-week album debut to date

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Queen catalog to be acquired by Sony Music in $1.27bn deal (report)

Sony Music Entertainment is set to acquire the catalog of legendary rock band Queen in a landmark deal worth GBP £1 billion (USD $1.27 billion at current exchange rates). That’s according to Hits, which reported on Wednesday (June 19), citing sources, that Sony Music has emerged as the winning buyer for Queen’s recording and publishing … Continued

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Music journalist Mark Sutherland launches ‘The Money Trench’ music business podcast

Inaugural episode will feature Lorna Clarke, BBC Director of Music

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Democrat and Republican lawmakers unite to question Spotify bundle move that ‘sharply reduces royalty payments for songwriters’

Congressmen Ted Lieu (D) and Adam Schiff (D) plus Senator Marsha Blackburn (R) question legality of Spotify's move in letter to US Copyright Office

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Indie label 2Point9 files copyright lawsuit against Sony’s Ministry of Sound Recordings in the UK over DJ Regard’s ‘Ride It’

2Point9 says it's been treated with "arrogance and dismissiveness" by Ministry of Sound Recordings