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Songtradr acquires music and sound design company Song Zu in multi-million dollar deal

Song Zu works in all areas of sonic branding, including soundtracks for ads on TV and radio, online content, VR and installation spaces

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MBW’s Weekly Roundup: Vivendi, Beach Boys, Big Hit x UMG, Warner x Rotana, MLC

The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place

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Spotify, Apple and others pay $424.38m in historical Unmatched Royalties to Mechanical Licensing Collective

'This is a massive win for music creators and the streaming services themselves,' says NMPA President & CEO David Israelite

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Why Soundcharts, used by all three major record companies, is ‘not your typical music data aggregator’

Soundcharts CEO, David Weiszfeld, on the music industry's future evolution – and his company's role in it

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Viagogo forced to sell StubHub business outside of North America

Proposed merger 'will lead to a substantial reduction in competition in the secondary ticketing market in the UK', according to UK competition authority

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‘Artists need to pay attention to their legacy and be very specific about it.’

"Lawyer-manager" John Branca on fighting for artists' rights, and the Michael Jackson story

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TaP Music’s Hannah Neaves and YouTube’s Azi Eftekhari launch new creative agency, Remedy Inc.

First projects include Fashion x Music film for YouTube’s Legacy Series and general management of paid live-streams for Universal’s new content studio Mercury Studios

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Universal partners with FIFA to launch Liam Payne podcast, kicking off new ‘FIFA Sound’ entertainment strategy

Podcast is the first of many new initiatives as part of FIFA's strategic collaboration with Universal Music Group for Brands