Concord In The News

The A&R Awards 2023: All The Winners

From Lyor Cohen to Tim Blacksmith and Danny D – it was a big night in London

Superfan platform Fave launches AI-supported tool for artists to identify and reach their biggest fans

Company says that the tool uses advanced analytics to provide artists with granular data on Fave users

Hipgnosis Songs Fund names Rob Naylor as new Chairman, Francis Keeling as non-executive director

Former Round Hill board members jump over to Hipgnosis Songs Fund amid continuation turbulence

Did Anthropic just reveal how it will try to beat Universal’s landmark music copyright lawsuit?

Anthropic responds to the Copyright Office’s Notice of Inquiry on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence

From HYBE’s $400m+ in Q3 to Kobalt’s partnership with Morgan Stanley… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days

Concord acquires Round Hill’s UK fund, after $469m sale was approved by latter firm’s shareholders last month

Deal includes over 150,000 songs and 51 catalogs

Google to invest up to $2bn in AI company Anthropic, which is currently being sued for copyright infringement by Universal Music Group

News of the investment was first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Friday (October 27)

Hipgnosis Songs Fund has been left concussed by ‘discontinuation’. But with a seemingly rock solid ‘call option’, Merck Mercuriadis still holds all the cards.

On: Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the all important 'call option', Blackstone, and the most likely outcome of this week's mess