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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…

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..

‘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

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Exceleration Music acquires jazz specialist Mack Avenue Music Group

Mack Avenue’s labels have earned several dozen Grammy nominations and awards

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The MLC makes four Advisory Committee appointments

MLC appoints UMPG, Kobalt, Warner Chappell and Hipgnosis execs to Advisory Committee

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Ben Vaughn, President & CEO of Warner Chappell Nashville, passes away

In 2009, Vaughn became the youngest executive to head a major publisher in Nashville

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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

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Mike Chester promoted to General Manager of Warner Records

Exec was most recently EVP of Promotion & Commerce

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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'

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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

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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

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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

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US investor group including Employer.com founder, Roblox CEO claims to have secured $20B+ for TikTok purchase bid (report)

Jesse Tinsley said his planned bid has interest from Roblox CEO David Baszucki and Anchorage Digital CEO Nathan McCauley, as well as YouTuber MrBeast

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Concord acquires publishing catalog of Ed Sheeran collaborator Johnny McDaid

McDaid has also written for the likes of P!nk, Lewis Capaldi, Keith Urban, Shawn Mendes, Zara Larsson, Alicia Keys, and Jung Kook, amongst many others

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OpenAI, valued at $157bn and facing multiple copyright infringement lawsuits, says China’s DeepSeek may have used its data to train rival AI model without permission

DeepSeek spent far less money on developing a chatbot than US AI companies, but it may have done so by stealing OpenAI's IP

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Music Business Worldwide

Older Posts

From Spotify’s $10bn music industry payout to Concord’s Johnny McDaid catalog acquisition… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

Key Songs in the Life of… Joe Hadley

‘We aim to solidify Saudi Arabia as a global destination for music and entertainment within the next five years.’

Exceleration Music acquires jazz specialist Mack Avenue Music Group

The MLC makes four Advisory Committee appointments

Ben Vaughn, President & CEO of Warner Chappell Nashville, passes away

Can AI-generated content be copyrighted? Here’s what a new report from the US Copyright Office says…

Mike Chester promoted to General Manager of Warner Records

Universal asks Texas court to dismiss Drake petition over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’

Terry McBride on fan communities, TikTok, and building Nettwerk to be a ‘generational’ music company

Tuned Global rolls out AI music features via AudioShake partnership

Amazon hikes prices for ‘Music Unlimited’ streaming service in the US, UK and Canada

US investor group including Employer.com founder, Roblox CEO claims to have secured $20B+ for TikTok purchase bid (report)

Concord acquires publishing catalog of Ed Sheeran collaborator Johnny McDaid

OpenAI, valued at $157bn and facing multiple copyright infringement lawsuits, says China’s DeepSeek may have used its data to train rival AI model without permission

Influence Media Partners raises $360m in debt financing led by Goldman Sachs

Spotify wins ‘bundling’ lawsuit, as court dismisses legal action brought by the MLC

Hiroki Totoki named new CEO of Sony Group; Kenichiro Yoshida to remain as Chairman