SoundCloud In The News

From Ed Sheeran’s court victory to Spotify deleting Boomy uploads… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place

The Boomy/Spotify streaming fraud debacle proves ‘pro-rata’ must go – urgently.

Is that the kind of music business you signed up for? Because it's the one you've got.

SoundCloud, Merlin strike global deal to bring fan-powered royalties to indie labels

SoundCloud introduced its “fan-powered royalties” model in April 2021

Paul Trueman joins artist marketing platform un:hurd as COO, Hazel Savage joins firm’s Board of Directors

News follows the company’s recent seven-figure investment round led by Kobalt Music’s founder and Chairman, Willard Ahdritz

Peter Gabriel and Chris Stapleton weigh in on debate around the use of generative AI in music

Two prominent artists chime in on the controversy around AI-generated music

From the ‘fake Drake’ AI track to BMG integrating frontline and catalog… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories on MBW from the past seven days

AI ‘fake Drake’ track deleted on Spotify, YouTube, TikTok after Universal Music Group copyright claim

The holding page of ghostwriter's now-defunct YouTube upload reads: This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Universal Music Group.

SoundCloud partners with Feature.fm to provide marketing tools to indie artists

Feature.fm's services include shareable and trackable pre-save and smart links