News Read Sir Lucian Grainge’s 2025 memo to Universal Music Group staff: ‘Streaming 2.0 will represent a new age of innovation, consumer segmentation, geographic expansion, greater consumer value and ARPU growth.’ UMG boss says: "I’m pleased to report that the Streaming 2.0 era has arrived."
News TikTok rival Triller secures $50m in equity funding Funding round was secured through a private placement with institutional investors
News SM Entertainment majority shareholder Kakao is building a superfan app to take on HYBE’s Weverse (report) Unlike HYBE's Weverse, Kakao’s BERRIZ will incorporate content from Korean movies, dramas, and webtoons
News Gallery: Glassnote welcomes in 2025 at HMV Oxford Street Event at HMV's historic 363 Oxford Street store was attended by quite the who's who of the UK music biz
News Warner Bros. Discovery strikes JV with Cutting Edge to co-own vast catalog of film and TV music, in deal worth $1bn+ Companies create a JV to co-own catalog of more than 400,000 compositions and song cues
Analysis News From Spotify’s $10bn music industry payout to Concord’s Johnny McDaid catalog acquisition… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
Interviews Key Songs in the Life of… Joe Hadley Spotify's partnership-focused exec selects eight tracks that helped shape who he is and what he does..
Interviews ‘We aim to solidify Saudi Arabia as a global destination for music and entertainment within the next five years.’ MDLBEAST CEO Ramadan Alharatani talks XP Music Futures and shares his predictions for the music industry in the MENA region
News Exceleration Music acquires jazz specialist Mack Avenue Music Group Mack Avenue’s labels have earned several dozen Grammy nominations and awards
News The MLC makes four Advisory Committee appointments MLC appoints UMPG, Kobalt, Warner Chappell and Hipgnosis execs to Advisory Committee
News Ben Vaughn, President & CEO of Warner Chappell Nashville, passes away In 2009, Vaughn became the youngest executive to head a major publisher in Nashville
Analysis News Can AI-generated content be copyrighted? Here’s what a new report from the US Copyright Office says… A work that combines human creativity with AI can be copyrighted, so long as there is a “sufficient” amount of human expression
News Mike Chester promoted to General Manager of Warner Records Exec was most recently EVP of Promotion & Commerce
News Universal asks Texas court to dismiss Drake petition over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ UMG called Drake's petition “an apparent effort to pressure" UMG and others "to limit the distribution" of Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us'
Interviews Terry McBride on fan communities, TikTok, and building Nettwerk to be a ‘generational’ music company MBW's Trailblazers series meets Terry McBride, CEO of Nettwerk Music Group
News Tuned Global rolls out AI music features via AudioShake partnership Tuned Global’s clients will now be able to separate songs and generate word-by-word lyric transcriptions
News Amazon hikes prices for ‘Music Unlimited’ streaming service in the US, UK and Canada The update puts Amazon Music Unlimited’s non-Prime rates in line with Spotify, which raised the price of its Premium subscription in the US to $11.99 in June 2024