News Recognition Music forms Senior Advisory Group, welcoming Matt Spetzler as Chairman, plus Lisa Alter and David H Johnson as members Spetzler is the founder of Jamen Capital and a veteran technology and media investor
News TikTok launches album campaigns for Jin of BTS, Avicii and Måneskin’s Damiano David TikTok has unveiled three new artist campaigns
News Ed Sheeran urges US Supreme Court to reject appeal of ‘Thinking Out Loud’ copyright case Overruling a lower court’s decision could lead to “rampant” speculative copyright lawsuits, Sheeran’s lawyers argue
News Live Nation begins operating its first venue in Colombia, in partnership with Grupo Páramo The concert giant's strategy of building high-quality venues in underserved markets has taken another step forward
News UMG is hiring for a Vice President, Global Head of Fraud Prevention UMG job ad describes the position as a "critical role".
Interviews Key Songs In The Life of… Isabel Garvey The former Abbey Road Studios MD who joined Tony Harlow's Warner Music UK team as COO two years ago selects the tracks that have inspired and sustained her life and career so far...
News Live Nation and AEG face probe over pandemic refund policies (report) Prosecutors are weighing bringing charges against Live Nation and CEO Michael Rapino, Bloomberg reported
Analysis News From Trump firing top copyright official to SoundCloud ‘fixing’ AI policy… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
News Anthropic lawyers apologize to court over AI ‘hallucination’ in copyright battle with music publishers Anthropic's lawyers say the Claude chatbot didn't invent a research paper out of thin air, but it did mis-name the paper and its authors
Analysis News Live Nation has already sold 100m tickets in 2025 so far – compared to 98m sold in all of 2019 Live Nation CFO Joe Berchtold talks about pricing, facing a potential economic slowdown, and fixing the company's public relations headaches
News Court should reject Drake’s ‘dangerous’ assumption that rap lyrics are factual in case against UMG, scholars argue Diss tracks 'are understood by audiences not to represent factual assertions about the opposing artist,' the scholars argue
News Reservoir subsidiary PopIndia strikes its first catalog deal with Musicraft Entertainment acquisition Deal arrives a month after the launch of Reservoir Media's newly established Mumbai subsidiary
News Producer Poo Bear launches TTIKR content monetization platform The mobile-first app allows musicians, filmmakers and multimedia artists to set their own prices for content and deal directly with their fans
News Universal Music expands iconic Blue Note and Deutsche Grammophon jazz and classical labels into China Labels launch in China as part of strategic expansion
News Maarten Steinkamp appointed Interim President of Armada Music Group Steinkamp has worked closely with Armada as an interim board consultant for the past several months
News Rob Stevenson, Matt Signore launch new label ALTER, backed by Firebird Stevenson and Signore were both previously in leadership roles at 300 Entertainment
Analysis News Sony generated $2.54bn from recorded music and publishing in calendar Q1 2025; Sony Music Group predicted to grow profit by ‘high single digits’ over next 12 months Both streaming and physical recorded music sales up single digits, as publishing division posts double-digit bounce in quarter
News UK artists generated more than $1bn on Spotify in 2024, up 8% from a year earlier Spotify says the total royalty haul from UK artists has more than doubled since 2018