Interviews ‘I’m not interested in regurgitating the past, but I’m also not in the rat race of hopping on whatever trend is most popular right now.’ MBW’s World’s Greatest Producers series meets Kacey Musgraves collaborator Ian Fitchuk
News Vocalist AI unveils vocal cloning platform that pays royalties to voice models The platform enables creators to convert their vocals to those of professional singers and rappers
News TikTok named official entertainment partner of Eurovision song contest for 3rd year running Last year's Eurovision winners saw a massive increase in popularity on TikTok following the contest
News Major music companies fight back against unlicensed AI in new ICMP-led initiative A new portal allows rightsholders to reserve their rights against scraping by tech companies training AI
News Marni Greenberg, ex-Sofar Sounds VP, joins SoundCloud as SVP and Head of Communications Greenberg brings with her a wealth of experience from Sofar Sounds, YouTube and Spotify
News Confirmed: Warner Music Group won’t be making a bid for Believe The way now appears clear for Denis Ladegaillerie consortium's takeover
Analysis News From KISS’s $300m deal to Warner’s deadline for a bid on Believe… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
News IMPALA sides with UMG in TikTok dispute, calls on Spotify, Apple, Deezer to address ‘negative consequences’ of royalty changes Europe’s trade association for indie labels says there is “an urgent need to secure fair revenues” from services like TikTok
News Christian Luiga, veteran of defense firm Saab, named new CFO of Spotify Luiga will start his new gig at Spotify in October, the company said in a statement Thursday
News Stability AI’s Stable Audio update enables full-length song production from text or audio The AI developer stresses that its new text-to-audio tool works to prevent abuse of copyrighted materials
News Tuned Global and Spafax team up to deliver in-flight music The partnership combines Spafax’s experience in curating in-flight entertainment with Tuned Global’s advanced playlisting tools
News KISS sells song catalog, name and IP to Pophouse, company behind ABBA Voyage, in $300m deal Pophouse announced acquisition of Cyndi Lauper catalog in February
Analysis 3 reasons why… Warner Music Group might be tempted to bid $1.8 billion for Believe Weighing up the positive differences an acquisition of Believe could make to WMG
News Pieter van Rijn named CEO of Downtown Music Holdings’ global services unit Downtown Music, as division ‘completes integration strategy’ with merger of CD Baby operations 'This is an extraordinary time for Downtown Music as we enter this next phase as a fully unified operating company,' said van Rijn
News Spotify to hike prices again, introduce new subscription tier (report) The streaming service is also reportedly planning a new "basic" that doesn't include access to audiobooks as part of the monthly subscription cost
News Silver Lake to take Endeavor private in deal valuing WME owner at $13B Endeavor owns talent agency WME, and is majority owner of the UFC and WWE
News Anghami completes merger with MENA-based Netflix rival OSN+ The combination of the music and video streaming platforms will create an "entertainment powerhouse" in the MENA region, the companies say
News TuneCore integrates with PreSonus Studio to simplify music distribution for artists Artists and others using PreSonus Studio will be able to distribute their music via TuneCore directly from the digital audio workstation