News The MLC has paid out over $1.5bn to songwriters to date Mechanical Licensing Collective issues update on royalties paid to date
News TikTok strikes global deal with DistroKid for indie artists to upload music to TikTok Music and CapCut The deal will see music distributed by DistroKid available across TikTok Music, CapCut, and in TikTok's Commercial Music Library
News Google to invest up to $2bn in AI company Anthropic, which is currently being sued for copyright infringement by Universal Music Group News of the investment was first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Friday (October 27)
News Jungkook smashes record for fastest song to hit 1bn streams on Spotify with ‘Seven’ Seven smashed the previous record set by Miley Cyrus’ Flowers
News YouTube Music sponsors show-stopping category at next week’s A&R Awards Big night just around the corner as YouTube Music backs legends-only award
Interviews ‘AfroFuture’s vision is to bring African art, cuisine, fashion, and music to a global audience.’ MBW's Trailblazers series interviews Abdul Karim Abdullah, Co-Founder and CEO of cultural entertainment platform AfroFuture
Analysis News Deezer’s ‘artist-centric’ model now has a new ‘user-centric’ element which, despite not really being ‘user-centric’, is quite a clever idea. MBW Explains: Digging into what Deezer's latest addition to 'artist-centric' really means
News Personalized music for games company Reactional Music strikes deal with Defected Records Defected has licensed the masters for a selection of tracks from its wider catalog for use on Reactional’s music delivery platform and personalization engine
News MBW+, a new Premium offering from Music Business Worldwide, is launching on Wednesday. This code gets you 25% off your first year. Only MBW+ subscribers will have unlimited access to Music Business Worldwide analysis and data
Analysis News Deezer added 600,000 new subscribers in Q3, and its revenues rose 5.5% YoY Deezer has published its financial results for the third quarter of 2023
News Mike Caren joins Futureverse AI text-to-music venture JEN as a founding Partner Futureverse raised $54m in a series A funding round this summer from backers including 10T Holdings and Ripple
News Abbey Road Studios to host third Abbey Road Amplify event The event will also be live-streamed on the Abbey Road Studios website
News Caron Veazey joins Three Six Zero’s management/entertainment partnership unit as Partner Veazey brings to the partnership METTE, a new talent fresh from the launch of her EP, METTENARRATIVE (Since 93/RCA).
News BMG, following ‘more efficient and more effective’ strategy under new CEO Thomas Coesfeld, reorganizes structure; around 40 staff cut MBW obtains internal note that confirms a range of changes at Bertelsmann-owned company
News From Spotify changing its royalty model to Universal’s $3bn in Q3… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days
Analysis Hipgnosis Songs Fund has been left concussed by ‘discontinuation’. But with a seemingly rock solid ‘call option’, Merck Mercuriadis still holds all the cards. On: Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the all important 'call option', Blackstone, and the most likely outcome of this week's mess
News PRS For Music sponsors Pop category at the nearly-here A&R Awards Royalty collection/distribution giant supports hyper-competitive category at imminent big night
News The Beatles’ last song ‘Now and Then’ to be released November 2 Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr relied on AI tech to salvage the song that John Lennon wrote and recorded as a demo in 1978