News Sony strikes strategic deal with Dominican Republic’s Alofoke Music, acquires portion of label’s catalog Label was founded by prominent Dominican Republic-based media personality Santiago “Alofoke” Matías
News Concord prepares to issue $1.75bn in bonds, in ABS transaction backed by 1 million music copyrights The collateral is 'a large, seasoned catalog of music royalty streams that is highly diversified by artist, genre and vintage'
News LyricFind files opposition to Musixmatch motion to dismiss antitrust lawsuit LyricFind filed an antritrust case against Musixmatch in March
News This app from SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo-man’s new company A20 will let fans chat with AI versions of K-Pop artists The app features direct messaging with artists and AI-generated responses from virtual versions of the artists.
News Warner Music Group is hiring for a Director of AI Automation & Growth The role will "identify and prioritize automation opportunities" across Warner Music Group
Analysis ‘Superfans must be made, not just mined.’ The following MBW op/ed comes from Deviate Digital founder Sammy Andrews
News EMPIRE launches in Nordic region; hires Iman Hazheer to lead expansion across Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Iceland Hazheer spent nearly seven years at Spotify, where he led editorial strategy for the Nordics as a Senior Editor
News From Hipgnosis’ return to Suno’s new Chief Music Officer… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days
News Kobalt inks publishing deal with country songwriter Derrick Southerland, acquires portion of song catalog Southerland was nominated for a Grammy, and won several other awards, for his work on Ingrid Andress' 'More Hearts Than Mine'
News Judge slashes T.I. and Tiny’s award in OMG Girlz copyright infringement case over toy dolls, setting up potential fourth jury trial The jury’s awarding of punitive damages was incorrect because it wasn't proven that toy company MGA’s infringement was “willful,” a judge ruled
News After being sued by Warner for copyright infringement, DSW files lawsuit against UMG, Sony and BMG seeking court protection over music usage in TikTok, Instagram posts Legal complaint seeks court protection from copyright infringement claims, after receiving demand letters from the music companies
News TikTok to integrate Chordal’s sync licensing tech with its commercial music library Rightsholders will be able to use Chordal's InstantClear tech to opt into TikTok's Commercial Music Library.
Interviews Key Songs In The Life Of… Golnar Khosrowshahi The Reservoir founder selects a magnificent seven tracks that have played a big part in her life and career to date...
Interviews Kobalt’s new publishing platform KOSIGN already represents 12k songs… where is it going next? MBW meets Jason Feinberg, Senior Vice President and Head of Kobalt's new publishing platform, KOSIGN
News Live Nation proposes 20% ticket resale cap to Trump administration (report) Live Nation is also proposing expanding artist control of ticket resales and stricter enforcement of the BOTS Act from 2016.
News Savan Kotecha’s Visva Records forms JV with Republic Records after ‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ chart success Republic will distribute Visva's roster, as the latter aims to develop international artists.
News Federal court blocks FTC’s ‘click-to-cancel’ rule for subscription services days before rollout A US appeals court found that the FTC failed to properly conduct a preliminary regulatory analysis.
News Oak View Group CEO Timothy Leiweke indicted by DOJ for alleged arena bid rigging scheme Leiweke 'will vigorously defend himself' said spokesperson in a statement, as Oak View Chief Exec steps down