Luminate In The News

Scooter Braun and Guy Oseary among backers of Swsh, which has raised $4M to turn fan-captured live content into data

The funding will support swsh's expansion across music, sports, and brand experiential marketing.

‘Michael’ becomes highest-grossing music biopic in history – overtaking ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ with $911M+ at global box office

Total comprises $358.6M domestically and $553.3M from international markets

The AI Music Streaming Flood: Where We’re At

The latest 'Tim's Take' from Music Business Worldwide founder, Tim Ingham

HarbourView Equity Partners acquires pre-2024 catalog from Stefflon Don

Deal covers both publishing and recorded music rights

Kakao’s Melon, Tencent Music, and Line Music to launch unified K-pop chart that pools streaming data from South Korea, China, and Japan

Melon will upload congratulatory video messages from artists including NCT Taeyong, Le Sserafim, ALPHA DRIVE ONE, and AND2BLE ahead of the launch.

P!NK, Julian Bunetta, and Harvey Mason jr. among honorees at NMPA’s 2026 Annual Meeting

P!NK will receive this year's NMPA Songwriter Icon Award.

Meet 2026’s first breakout band, according to Luminate – a masked math rock duo called Angine de Poitrine, with weekly global on-demand streams up from under 2k to 11.2m in a single year

Band went viral after a KEXP performance that has since accumulated more than 14m YouTube views.

Will this BTS tide finally lift all K-Pop boats?

The following op/ed comes from author and music economist Will Page, and Jeongbeom ‘JB’ Kim, Chief Data Officer at the Korean-based KreatorsNetwork