News Spotify hikes prices for Premium subscribers in the US… again Spotify is upping the price of its Premium subscription in the United States to $11.99
News Rick Gleave quietly leaves Tuned Global, forms Music Foundry consultancy with two other music execs The consultancy aims to meet the growing demand for business advisory support from the expanding music technology sector
News Joanna Kalli elevated to Managing Director, Commercial Group, at Sony Music UK The promotion comes as Sony Music's catalog continues to expand, including potentially with the addition of rock legends Queen
News Tencent, Tencent Music to buy 10% stake in Thailand’s IPO-bound GMM Music for $70m GMM Music is bullish that the partnership with Tencent and TME will make a “fandom economy possible”
News AEG CEO Jay Marciano labels Live Nation/Ticketmaster a ‘monopoly,’ asserts DOJ will win lawsuit “While it may take some time, we strongly believe that DOJ’s lawsuit will succeed and ultimately bring sweeping changes"
Analysis News From Sony Music’s reported Queen catalog talks to Live Nation’s DoJ battle… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
News HYBE can’t remove NewJeans label CEO Min Hee-jin… for now The latest developments in the power struggle between Ador's CEO and HYBE
News Reservoir reports double-digit revenue jump in latest fiscal year, to $144.9m The company is forecasting continued growth, though at a somewhat slower pace, in the coming year
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