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Apple Music inks major deal in China: App now accessible for China Mobile’s 1 billion+ customers

Apple's music streaming service faces stiff competition in the Chinese market from Tencent, NetEase and others

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HYBE’s Weverse to launch new superfan subscription tiers… and keep up to 60% of the money

Weverse will reportedly take up to 60% of the revenue generated on its new paid membership service

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2 Live Crew can take back recorded music copyrights from ex-label, jury rules

Lawyers for the current owner of 2 Live Crew's copyrights have filed to overturn the jury's decision

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Carlyle-backed Litmus Music buys Randy Newman’s publishing, recorded music interests

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed in today's announcement

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YouTube unveils new features including collaborative playlists, fan badges and a sleep timer

YouTube aims to keep users engaged amid growing competition from other platforms

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Apple Music now lets artists turn their set lists into playlists for tour promotion

Apple is expanding its efforts to strengthen the artist-fan connection and offer promotional tools for musicians.

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Tencent Music partners with Galaxy Corp. for Korean rapper G-Dragon’s tour

The alliance comes as Tencent Music expands its global presence and increasingly moves into live music

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Key Songs In The Life Of… Walter Jones

The senior Sony Music Publishing A&R exec traces his life and career via seven tracks (and a couple of crafty hacks)

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Believe’s Global Head of Music, Romain Vivien, talks artists, AI, streaming fraud, and the future of independence

MBW’s World Leaders series meets Romain Vivien, Global Head of Music at Paris-headquartered music company Believe

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Triller is finally a publicly traded company: TikTok rival’s share price drops 20% on first day of trading

At around $700 million, the company's market cap is short of the $4 billion initially targeted in the merger

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K-pop giant HYBE scrambles to pay back $293m in debt

Holders of a series of HYBE's convertible bonds have requested early repayment, pushing the K-pop giant into a fast refinance

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India’s Tips Music clocks 32% revenue growth in latest quarter, as YouTube subscribers reach 108m

India's music industry's impressive boom shows no signs of slowing down

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Grammy and Juno winner k.d. lang inks global publishing deal with Reservoir

Lang has collaborated with superstars from Roy Orbison to Bonnie Raitt, Elton John, Loretta Lynn, and Tony Bennett

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‘You’re talking to me after 10, 11 years while having a beautiful moment, but there’s a lot of tears behind that.’

Steph Jones, co-writer of Espresso, on her decade-long overnight success, helping new artists find their voice, the power of perfume and why the music industry has to improve its treatment of songwriters

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TikTok partners with South Korean streaming service Melon to expand ‘Add to Music App’ feature

TikTok recently announced the shutdown of its TikTok Music streaming service, but that's not the end of its musical ambitions

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Jean Mischler named SVP, Marketing at Downtown Music’s CD Baby

Mischler comes to CD Baby from Sofar Sounds, where she served as VP of Growth Marketing

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Triller preps for NASDAQ listing this week, as TikTok rival completes merger with financial firm AGBA

Former Citigroup executive Mark Carbeck has been named as the new Chief Financial Officer

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Believe redesigns global music strategy, following the appointment of Romain Vivien as company’s first-ever Global Head of Music

'Since 2008, Romain has been one of my trusted partners to develop and grow Believe into the global player it is today,' said Denis Ladegaillerie, Believe’s Founder and CEO