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The Music Business UK Awards 2025 in association with YouTube: The finalists revealed!

The awards will take place on the evening of Tuesday, November 4 in London

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Spotify has deleted 75m+ ‘spammy tracks’ – as it unveils new AI music policies

Spotify introduces a suite of new policies for managing AI-generated content on its service

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Paul Purcell joins Absolute Label Services as Director of Platform

Purcell joins Absolute from FUGA, where he served as Director of Client Integrations

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Tracy Maddux leads ‘multi-million dollar’ investment round into OpenPlay, joins rights management platform’s board

OpenPlay works with 3,500+ labels, distributors and publishers across 24 countries

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Downtown Music boss speaks out on UMG deal: ‘The debate must be honest. It must be about facts, not agendas.’

UMG’s Virgin Music Group revealed in December that it had agreed to buy Downtown LLC in a $775m deal, which is currently under Phase II investigation by the European Commission.

Interviews

‘We’re building the market-making infrastructure for the music business’

SourceAudio co-founder, Andrew Harding, talks sync, AI licensing, and the future of the business

Interviews

ONErpm’s Emmanuel Zunz: ‘There are no more distribution companies, there are no more record labels. There are just companies providing solutions to creators.’

ONErpm founder Emmanuel Zunz on hitting $300m revenue, the Universal/Downtown deal, and why traditional music industry categories are dead to him

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Cat Kreidich exits as President of Warner’s indie distribution arm, ADA

There’s a big change happening at the top of one of Warner Music Group’s most important global divisions. Cat Kreidich is leaving her role as President of ADA Worldwide, WMG’s distribution and services division for indie labels and artists. Kreidich joined ADA as Executive Vice President in 2020, before being promoted to President in 2021. … Continued