News Deezer becomes latest streaming service to integrate TikTok’s ‘Add to Music App’ feature Feature allows TikTok users to save songs discovered on the platform to their preferred music streaming service
Interviews ‘Writer-producer management is a different ball game, it’s a day-to-day hustle.’ Ant Hippsley established Milk & Honey’s London office in 2020 with Lucas Keller. Since then he’s grown the roster and his team – but, he explains, the UK wing of the writer-producer management company is only just getting started…
News Nvidia unveils AI audio generator ‘Fugatto’ that can produce ‘sounds never heard before’ Nvidia describes its new artificial intelligence technology as “a Swiss Army knife for sound”
News US Supreme Court seeks federal insight into major labels’ $1bn copyright case against Cox The request will likely be handled by President-elect Donald Trump's designated Solicitor General, John Sauer
News Dan Rosen named President, Records And Publishing, Australasia At Warner Music Group Company’s Australasian label chief adds publishing brief to his role
News Drake claims Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ was ‘Artificially Inflated’ by Universal Music and Spotify. UMG says allegations are ‘offensive and untrue’ Not Like Us has been nominated for five Grammys
News Fred Durst and Limp Bizkit’s $200m lawsuit over alleged unpaid royalties is ‘based on a fallacy’ says Universal Music, in motion to dismiss UMG told the court that the lawsuit "should be dismissed with prejudice"
News At $45.5bn in 2023, music copyright now worth more globally than cinema, new report finds Music copyright's value is up a “jaw-dropping” 26% since 2021, and nearly double the $25 billion in 2014
News Anthropic lands another $4bn investment from Amazon, amid ongoing copyright battle with Universal, Concord and ABKCO Anthropic is embroiled in a copyright lawsuit alleging its Claude chatbot regurgitates copyrighted, sometimes without being asked
News Brady Bedard joins Atlantic Music Group as Executive Vice President, Promotion Exec to head up promotion strategy across the Atlantic, 300, and 10K Projects labels
Interviews ‘Our global strategy for Japanese music has just begun.’ MBW’s World Leaders series meets Manubu Tsujino, President of Sony Music Labels, the recorded music division of Sony Music Entertainment Japan
News Vevo dscvr artists to watch 2025: Ella Langley, Cloudy June, Good Neighbours Three more potential stars from MBW's series focused on Vevo's Artists To Watch 2025 list...
News FUGA signs global music distribution deal with Mind of a Genius Records Mind of a Genius Records will gain access to FUGA’s distribution services, marketing and strategic support
News Billie Eilish named Apple Music Artist of the Year Eilish's album 'Hit Me Hard And Soft' reached No. 1 on Apple Music's all-genre albums chart in 138 countries
News India’s Tips Music becomes latest independent music company to strike direct deal with TikTok following Merlin split Partnership will make over 31,000 Tips-owned songs accessible to TikTok users worldwide, excluding China and India
News CTS Eventim’s nine-month revenue jumps 16% to $2.1B after See Tickets merger The company expects a significant year-over-year increase in EBITDA for 2024
Analysis News From Amazon Music’s audiobook bundle to WMG’s subscription streaming growth… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
Interviews News Johnny Marr talks artist development and the record industry’s future as he partners with Epidemic Sound Johnny Marr tells MBW about his new artist development partnership with Epidemic Sound