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Breakr, a Nas-backed startup with $9m raised to date, wants to ‘democratize’ music marketing with its AI-driven tech platform

Breakr provides software and infrastructure for labels and artists to connect directly with influencers.

Music streaming services come out swinging against Canada’s new ‘discriminatory tax’ that requires them to hand over 5% of their Canadian revenues

Canada’s Online Streaming Act requires streamers to contribute 5% of their annual revenue to a number of programs designed to aid Canadian content creators

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Bill Ackman, a major Universal Music shareholder, just got richer – and much more ambitious. What might this mean for UMG?

How Pershing Square's new money-game connects to Universal Music Group – and the music business at large

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Federica Tremolada promoted to General Manager for Europe at Spotify, as Michael Krause exits after 7 years

Krause joined Spotify in October 2017

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The DoJ is suing to break up Live Nation. What exactly does the lawsuit aim to achieve – and could the concert giant win?

The DoJ has its work cut out for it, if it wants to see Live Nation and Ticketmaster broken up

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US appeals court sets accelerated schedule to hear TikTok’s challenge to divest-or-ban law in September

ByteDance has until January 19, 2025, to sell TikTok or face an effective ban on the app in the US

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Matt Serletic joins Amazon Music as Director of AI Innovation and Interactive Experiences ‘to reimagine how people connect with music in the age of AI’

Serletic headed up Virgin Records in the US between 2002 and 2005

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Suno could get sued by the record business. Who’s backing it with $125m?

Here, we take a look at Suno’s investors, their philosophies, and the other businesses they’ve put money behind...