News Lisanne Dorn Bota appointed Senior Vice President, Commercial at Sony Music GSA She will join the management team, reporting directly to Christoph Behm, CEO of Sony Music GSA
News Epic Games prevails in patent infringement case over Travis Scott, Ariana Grande concerts in Fortnite A jury found that neither the Ariana Grande show nor the Travis Scott concert in 'Fortnite' a patent held by Utherverse
News Avex Music Group launches Toibox publishing JV with Drake and Rihanna producer Elkan Avex Music Group, led by CEO Brandon Silverstein, has also signed Elkan to a global publishing deal
News Cherry Red acquires UK label Dome Records from directors Peter and Santosh Robinson Among artists who have been released on Dome are Lulu, Beverley Knight, Incognito, Hil St Soul, the James Taylor Quartet
News Salt-N-Pepa sue Universal over ownership of master recordings – UMG says it remains ‘committed to working towards an amicable resolution’ The hip-hop group is accusing UMG of engaging in “self-interested and heavy-handed tactics” to block them from exercising their termination rights
News Music streaming service ROXi, backed by U2’s Adam Clayton, secures management buyout (report) The assets of MagicWorks, ROXi’s parent company, transferred to a newly formed entity called FastStream Interactive, Sky News reports
News Bruno Crolot to leave Spotify for a role at Believe Exec originally joined Spotify as General Manager for France and Benelux in 2016
News Universal’s GTS acquires Latin Music management company RLM The company was founded by Rosa Lagarrigue in 1980
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