Analysis Who owns Live Nation? The concert's giants owners include Liberty Media, some heavy-hitting investment firms... and Jimmy Iovine
News American Hockey League sued for alleged copyright infringement by Sony and Universal-owned production music firm APM AHL becomes latest US-based professional sports league to be involved in litigation over alleged copyright infringement
News Kaoruko Hill appointed General Manager, APAC at Merlin Exec most recently worked in the Music Data & Rights Management team at ByteDance
News Dirty Hit renews UK physical distribution partnership with Universal Music UK Dirty Hit says its partnership with the Universal Music Group unit has yielded a string of chart-topping albums
News Web3 music streaming platform Tune.FM raises $50m in funding The company has now raised $80M in its efforts to cut out the middleman between artists and music streamers
News Former TikTok and Amazon exec Andrew Maddox named Head of Finance at beatBread Maddox previously held senior finance roles at TikTok and Amazon
Analysis News From HYBE’s mystery acquisition to the copyright lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
News Warner Music Korea launches English-language music label MPLIFY, led by Samuel Ku Korean-Australian singer-songwriter Olivia Marsh is the first artist to join the label
News Downtown Music Publishing inks global deal with PDU, the company from iconic Italian singer Mina Italian singer Mina has sold more than 150 million records worldwide
News HYBE’s NewJeans fallout is getting tenser by the day, as new CEO says company ‘follows the rules and pursues precision management’ HYBE CEO addresses NewJeans ultimatum after shareholders meeting
News Court allows copyright infringement suit over Dua Lipa’s megahit Levitating to proceed A copyright infringement case over Dua Lipa's megahit Levitating is set to go forward
News Netflix chief Ted Sarandos cashes out $6m in Spotify stock Sarandos cashed out 17,710 SPOT shares on Thursday, September 12
News HYBE buys 51% stake in mystery company for $25m HYBE recently spent USD $25 million to acquire a 51% stake in an unknown company.
News Trio of ex-BMG bigwigs launch new indie label in Germany… with a human heart Max Giesinger named as debut signing for new label launched by Dominique Casimir, Maximilian Kolb and Justus Haerder
News Spotify: We accounted for less than 1% of $10m generated in US streaming fraud case The company says it "invests heavily" in tools to detect and prevent streaming fraud
News Abu Dhabi’s ESMAA and Anghami settle legal dispute and strike licensing agreement Deal marks the resolution of a legal dispute between Anghami and ESMAA (representing PopArabia and Reservoir)
News BMI files rate court action against SiriusXM Petition filed in New York on Thursday, September 12
News K-pop giant HYBE asks court to unmask YouTubers accusing its artists of ‘plagiarism’ HYBE has filed defamation lawsuits against seven YouTube channels that it says have damaged the company's and artists' reputations.