Luminate In The News

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

‘J-Pop is now gaining popularity on a global scale.’

MBW's World Leaders series meets Keiko Ishikawa, Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) at Sony Music Entertainment Japan...

‘Twenty, thirty years from now, this is going to be a period of music that we romanticize.’

MBW’s World’s Greatest Producers series meets Rob Bisel, a multi-Grammy nominee who has worked with SZA, Kendrick Lamar and more

Could HYBE’s Weverse offer a template for Universal Music Group’s courting of ‘superfans’ in 2024?

UMG has been experimenting with HYBE and Weverse since back in 2020. What's it learned?

Luminate acquires artist data identification service Quansic

France-headquartered Quansic claims to operate the world’s largest artist identification database

Morgan Wallen signs global publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music

Wallen will also have the ability to sign songwriters in partnership with WCM

78% of small-to-midsize businesses in the US currently misuse personal streaming accounts to play music to their customers. It’s costing the music industry $1.38 billion per year.

Ola Sars highlights an important opportunity in publicly-played music for rightsholders

With India in the running to overtake the US as the biggest music streaming market (by volume), Believe swoops for local ‘powerhouse’ catalog

Believe has also acquired WHM's YouTube channel