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‘No one understands the pressure of being labelled as a ‘hit songwriter’, then somebody puts you in a room with strangers and they’re like, ‘Hey, I need a smash!’’

Grammy-winner Theron Thomas talks about the childhood that inspired him, helping break Lizzo, his billion-stream hits, AI, TikTok, The Power Rangers and Mel Gibson

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Spotify launches video courses on production, songwriting, how to ‘make hit records’ and more

The platform has teamed up with various ed tech services

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BMG annual revenues hit $979m in 2023, up 4.6% YoY; EBITDA flat at $210m

BMG's EBITDA margin stood at 21.4% in 2023, down slightly from the 22.5% margin it posted in 2022

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Warner has 13 days to submit a binding offer for Believe, as French company agrees to let WMG peruse its ‘data room’

This is the latest twist in an ongoing corporate saga

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Tencent Music users are ‘willing to pay’ for music produced with the company’s AI tools… and 3 other things we learned on TME’s latest earnings call

Key takeaways from Tencent Music Entertainment's latest earnings call

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‘Majors and independents have the same end goal. Being aligned on how we get there, and garnering the same respect from different services, is crucial to that.’

Emily Stephenson, President of Publishing at Downtown Music, talks about her career path, her work/life balance and the evolution of publishing

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Adriana Ramos named Managing Director, Brazil at Universal Music Publishing Group

Ramos replaces longtime Brazil MD Marcelo Falcao

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Tracy Chan, ex-Chief Content Officer at SoundCloud, joins AI music company Splash as Chief Executive Officer

Chan joined SoundCloud in 2022 and exited his role as CCO at the platform this month (March)

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Joni Mitchell’s music is back on Spotify, a week after Neil Young’s music returned to the platform

Move comes more than two years after both artists removed their catalogs from Spotify

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Musixmatch partners with AI company Runway to let artists generate AI-powered lyric videos

The tool can also directly export the compositions as 30-second clips to create assets for social media, and Spotify Canvas.

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UK live music promoters Communion Presents and FKP Scorpio UK merge to form Communion ONE

Communion ONE will be led by a board including managing directors Daniel Ealam, Mazin Tappuni and Scott O’Neill

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Tencent Music President and Chief Technology Officer Zhenyu Xie to exit

Exec will continue to be involved with TME in a consulting capacity

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French regulators step in to remove roadblock for possible Warner Music Group bid for Believe

Believe's board turned to the AMF to adjudicate whether a particular move by a consortium led by Believe founder/CEO, Denis Ladegaillerie, was lawful

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From the ‘secret’ composer behind 650 fake artists to BandLab’s 100m users… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

This week's biggest stories...

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Streaming fraud leads to prison sentence for Danish man in case called ‘historic’ by artists’ groups

Streaming fraud and manipulated audio are two of the biggest headaches in music today, and a criminal case shows how the two go hand in hand

Analysis Blog

‘In the absence of robust record-keeping, there is no way of knowing what content has been used and generated by AI.’

A bill was recently introduced in the UK to regulate AI in the market. In the following op/ed, Conservative politician Lord Holmes of Richmond MBE explains what the bill aims to achieve

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Music-making platform BandLab surpasses 100 million users

App has grown by 40 million users since January 2023

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ELVIS Act signed into law in Tennessee to protect artists’ voice and likeness from the misuse of AI

The bipartisan ELVIS Act was signed into law on Thursday (March 21) by Tennessee Governor Bill Lee