IFPI In The News

SEVENTEEN’s FML was the biggest-selling album globally last year, according to IFPI

News arrives a day after Miley Cyrus’ Flowers was named the biggest-selling single globally last year

TikTok vs. Universal Music Group: The Cremation of Once-Cuddlesome Relations

Surveying the landscape of a battle between music's biggest rightsholder and ByteDance's video juggernaut

TikTok: UMG’s catalog, including publishing, only makes up ‘approximately 30% of popular music on our platform’

It's a surprising claim from the ByteDance company...

Miley Cyrus’ Flowers was the biggest-selling single globally last year, according to the IFPI

Flowers by Miley Cyrus is the winner of the IFPI Global Single Award for 2023

Robert Kyncl highlights Warner Music Group’s ‘big ambitions’ for MENA, as WMG signs India-based star Nora Fatehi

Fatehi will remain signed to T-Series, the Indian music label and movie studio, for her Bollywood projects.

Universal Music Group buys majority stake in Afrobeats label Mavin

TPG has fully exited the business, while Kupanda Capital will a remain minority investor and strategic adviser

Taylor Swift was the biggest-selling recording artist globally in 2023 – for the second consecutive year and the fourth time to date

Taylor Swift has been crowned as IFPI‘s Global Recording Artist Of The Year for 2023

From Rod Stewart’s $100m catalog sale to a takeover bid for Believe… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

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