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The Weeknd’s ‘Blinding Lights’ overtakes Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape of You’ to become Spotify’s most-streamed track of all time

There's a new No. 1 in Spotify's all-time-most-streamed rankings

From Anghami’s 200,000 AI-generated songs to the latest copyright infringement lawsuit against a US ISP… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

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Classical music use on YouTube content soared 90% globally in 2022 — report

Epidemic Sound publishes inaugural Sound of the Internet Report

Allen Kovac and Better Noise pivoted to horror movies during the pandemic – and found a promotional goldmine for rock artists.

Over 150 million views of music videos with The Retaliators footage have taken place on YouTube alone

Another music streaming service is making its own AI-generated songs – and it’s on course to create over 200,000 of them.

MENA-focused Anghami claims that it will soon become the first platform to host over 200k songs generated by AI.

Sameen Singh appointed Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Digital Officer at 88Rising

He will report directly to CEO and Founder Sean Miyashiro, and be based in Los Angeles.

Chartmetric launches ‘V2’ of its platform, including new track filtering capabilities

Tracks Lists feature enables users to filter the 80 million+ tracks in Chartmetric’s database using 20 different metrics across 11 different platforms

Music now has over 616 million paying streaming subscribers globally

Research firm estimates that Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) overtook Amazon Music to become the third largest DSP globally at the end of 2021