News Latin music veteran Gustavo Lopez launches Globalatino Music Partners; acquires majority stake in Cigol Music Lopez was a longtime Universal executive and CEO of Saban Music Latin, which was recently acquired by Virgin Music Group
News On… DistroKid, Trefuego, modified audio, and the potential for a new ‘Napster Nightmare’ Should distributors bear any responsibility for the spread of copyright-infringing modified tracks?
Interviews ‘When artists say they want to be independent, what they really mean is they want to be autonomous.’ Stem founder, Milana Rabkin-Lewis, on her company, TikTok vs. UMG, AI, and much more
News Warner Chappell Music strikes exclusive publishing deal with Electronic Arts The deal includes soundtracks from EA's games, as well as access for EA to Warner Chappell's music-creation talent pool
News Cutting Edge Group secures $500m to fund music rights acquisitions Cutting Edge said it has already identified a "circa USD $1.5 billion pipeline" of potential investments
News Apple’s Elena Segal to receive Ivors Academy Honor for UK music industry contributions Segal is being honored for "consistently champion[ing] the value of songwriters and music publishing"
News SAG-AFTRA strikes new deal with major labels on sound recordings, including protections for AI use Among other things, the deal requires an artist's consent for their voice to be used in AI-generated content
News StubHub eyes late summer IPO, targeting $16.5B valuation (report) The viagogo-owned ticket resales company has accumulated more than $2 billion in debt
News Victoria Oakley appointed CEO of IFPI Oakley will join IFPI in June from global strategic communications and advocacy consultancy, Portland
Analysis Taylor Swift has a laudable history of standing up to Big Tech in the name of artist compensation. By embracing TikTok in 2024, she’s broken ranks with that narrative. When Swift grappled with Apple in 2015, she noted that the fight was "not about me" – it was about other artists. The TikTok situation is the exact opposite.
Analysis News From Taylor Swift’s return to TikTok to Spotify’s move on manipulated audio… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
Interviews ‘India’s streaming market is on the cusp of a digital boom with unprecedented opportunity.’ MBW’s World Leaders series meets Kumar Taurani, Chairman and Managing Director of India's Tips Industries
Analysis Blog What is the potential impact of Getty’s lawsuit against Stability AI on the music industry? The following op/ed comes from Jonathan Coote, an associate and music lawyer at Bray & Krais Solicitors
News Warner Music Group launches Warner Music South Asia, led by Jay Mehta New entity covers WMG’s recorded music operations in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka
News Having spent over $200m on catalogs to date, South Korea’s Beyond Music eyes Latin Music market with Yandel music rights deal Latin Music star Yandel strikes music rights deal with Beyond Music
News Taylor Swift’s music is back on TikTok, despite no resolution in its dispute with UMG It’s likely no coincidence that Swift’s music has reappeared on TikTok little more than week before the April 19 release of her new albu
Analysis News Spotify plans to let subscribers speed up songs – and pay rightsholders when those modified tracks are streamed (report) Spotify is working on new features to let its subcribers speed up and slow down songs, according to a report from the WSJ
Analysis News Amapiano and Afrobeats videos saw nearly 4 billion global views on Vevo in 2023 Music video network Vevo recorded a 56% YoY increase in viewership of Afrobeats and Amapiano videos globally in 2023