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
News Andrew Howell promoted to Vice President of Sync at Warner Chappell Music UK Howell joined the WCM UK team in 2016
News Pandora quietly raises prices amid continuing decline in paying subscribers The music streaming service's owner, SiriusXM, is still seeing growing ad revenue in its Pandora segment
News AI-powered B2B audio company Music.AI strikes AI training partnership with cloud computing platform Vultr Music.AI says that its tools are used by more than 45m users worldwide
Analysis News From Spotify’s battle with music publishers to the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
News Warner Music Latina inks global deal with Dominican artist Tokischa to launch new record label, SOL The deal is also supported by Atlantic Records
News New music industry trade body The Web3 Music Association launches Sergio Mottola will lead W3M as President & CEO
Analysis News Spotify’s battle with songwriters and music publishers is getting complicated. Here’s a recap. MBW Explains what's happened, who has said what so far, and what could happen next...
News Beyoncé sued for alleged copyright infringement over sample on ‘Break My Soul’ A group of former musicians in New Orleans say 'Break My Soul' infringed their copyright by way of a sample from Big Freedia
News Live Nation hit with antitrust lawsuit by US Department of Justice "We will defend against these baseless allegations, use this opportunity to shed light on the industry, and continue to push for reforms that truly protect consumers and artists," said Live Nation
Analysis The Brutal Reality: Power is shifting to AI-generated music and algorithmic discovery. Music rightsholders must wake up to the opportunity. Stef Van Vugt, founder of Fruits Music, on Spotify's quiet moves and the rise of Suno