News TikTok partners with iHeartRadio on live music competition for artists with at least 50K followers Contestants will advance based on a combination of likes, views and comments, and judges' scores.
News Stability AI is developing a legit ‘opt in’ artist marketplace… amid lawsuits over unauthorized scraping CEO Prem Akkaraju told the Financial Times that the company now has "zero debt."
News FireAid defends $100M fund distribution, hits out at ‘misinformation’, amid growing political scrutiny Organizers of the FireAid benefit concert said the remaining $25 million is expected to be distributed by year-end.
News EVEN partners with Secretly Distribution, enabling artists to unlock direct-to-fan revenue Since launching in April last year, EVEN has onboarded 80,000+ artists across more than 2,200 labels
News Cyrille Bolloré, son of Vincent, steps down from Universal Music Group board, as Bolloré Group fights French regulator over Vivendi share offer According to its website, The Bolloré Group owned an 18.5% stake in Universal Music Group at the close of 2024
News Create Music Group’s digital content studio Flighthouse launches sports-focused Fieldhouse Co-Founder and CEO Jonathan Strauss has described Create Music Group as an "audience company"
News AEG partners with Because, Combat in new ownership structure for Paris festival We Love Green Jay Marciano calls event one of the 'marquee' live music festivals in Europe
Interviews Why Primary Wave – and the Marley estate – could be sitting on a goldmine with new Bob Marley show, Hope Road Larry Mestel gives MBW a peek behind the curtain of his company's new Vegas show – and the future of 'name, image, and likeness' in music
News King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard join Deerhoof and Xiu Xiu in pulling music from Spotify after Daniel Ek’s military AI investment Ek recently led a €600 million (USD $703m) series D for Helsing, a defense company focused on AI-powered military drones.
News A letter to HYBE shareholders from Music Business Worldwide RE: BTS ‘hiatus’ insider trading convictions Explaining why MBW updated its article last week... then updated it again
News TikTok must transfer control to US owner, US commerce secretary says Lutnick said Donald Trump is "positive towards TikTok, if it can move into American hands."
News NewJeans: ‘Telling us to return to ADOR and HYBE is like telling the victim of school bullying to return to the same school and endure it.’ The K-pop group's legal team said the root of the conflict lies in HYBE's audit into Min Hee-jin last year.
News African music enjoys breakthrough on Shazam’s Global Top 200 Chart Twelve tracks by African artists reached the Shazam Global Top 10, with three reaching the No. 1 position.
News From Concord’s $1.76 billion ABS transaction to Universal Music Group’s EU scrutiny… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up The biggest music biz headlines from the past few days, all in once place.
News Germany’s recorded music sales grew 1.4% in the first half of 2025, marking a significant slowdown The country's recorded music industry trade group is urging the EU to create the conditions needed for an AI licensing marketplace
News Anthropic beefs up legal team ahead of showdown with Universal Music Group (report) A blog called chatgptiseatingtheworld.com said the judge’s recent decision sets the stage for larger damages in Anthropic’s two legal cases.
News Music industry backs reintroduced ‘RAP Act’ that would bar lyrics from being used as evidence in US court trials ‘Freddy Mercury did not confess to having ‘just killed a man’ by putting ‘a gun against his head...'
News Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos talks up ‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ as fictional groups dominate Spotify charts Seven of the top 15 tracks on Spotify's most-streamed tracks in are by virtual artists from a Netflix movie