Analysis News Sony Music Group boss Rob Stringer talks acquisitions, artificial intelligence and how music streaming services should start charging free users Sony Music wants to see an end to free music subscriptions, and 5 other things we learned from its latest investor presentation
Interviews ‘We don’t look at metrics. We just look at talent.’ PULSE Music Group's Josh Abraham and Scott Cutler talk artist development and Tommy Richman's viral hit MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Interviews ‘We were of that time, and everything was absolutely wonderful.’ Pete Bellotte on how he helped define disco and set the tempo for modern electronic dance music
News Artist Legacy Group named global representative of DMX’s estate DMX's music has seen a resurgence of interest since the rapper's untimely passing in 2021
News Domino and Sentric Music join RDx global data exchange service Launched by IFPI and WIN and operated by PPL, the RDx platform aims to streamline music data for royalty collections
News Spotify hit with class action lawsuit over discontinued ‘Car Thing’ device Consumers who purchased the device “are left with nothing more than a paperweight that cost between $50 and $100"
Analysis Blog ‘It is unethical for generative AI companies to make money off the backs of artists and songwriters, without compensation or attribution.’ The following op/ed comes from Tracy Chan, a former SoundCloud, Twitch, and Spotify executive and currently the CEO of Australia-born AI music company Splash
Analysis The DoJ is suing to break up Live Nation. What exactly does the lawsuit aim to achieve – and could the concert giant win? The DoJ has its work cut out for it, if it wants to see Live Nation and Ticketmaster broken up
News Sony Music in talks to acquire Queen catalog in potential $1bn deal (report) Potential deal would become one of the biggest single-artist music catalog sales in history
Analysis News Three quarters of all royalties generated by UK artists on Spotify in 2023 came from listeners outside of the UK Spotify has recently broken out streaming royalty data for a bunch of individual markets in Europe
News US appeals court sets accelerated schedule to hear TikTok’s challenge to divest-or-ban law in September ByteDance has until January 19, 2025, to sell TikTok or face an effective ban on the app in the US
News Matt Serletic joins Amazon Music as Director of AI Innovation and Interactive Experiences ‘to reimagine how people connect with music in the age of AI’ Serletic headed up Virgin Records in the US between 2002 and 2005
News Firebird signs physical sales and distro deal with Proper Distribution The agreement will see Proper offer its services to Firebird's network of labels, artist management companies and other creative businesses
News Universal Music Publishing inks exclusive worldwide deal with China’s Cheerful Music Cheerful Music's catalog includes hits like YI XIAO JIANG HU (KE MU SAN), which has amassed more than 50bn views on Douyin
Analysis Suno could get sued by the record business. Who’s backing it with $125m? Here, we take a look at Suno’s investors, their philosophies, and the other businesses they’ve put money behind...
News HYBE sells $50m stake in SM Entertainment Regulatory filing indicates that the company has sold 755,522 shares of SM Entertainment
Analysis News PRS for Music paid out a record $1.2bn to songwriters, composers and music publishers last year Total royalty distributions increased by 12.8% YoY
News DICE launches ‘DICE Extras’ tool as part of new in-app marketplace for event creators to sell ‘auxiliary products’ directly to fans Ticket buyers will now be able to pick up parking passes, skip-the-line passes and merch all on the DICE platform