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CAA in talks to sell majority stake to billionaire François-Henri Pinault in $7bn deal (report)

Pinault's family is behind the Kering group, which controls Gucci, Balenciaga and more luxury brands

Utopia wants to be the ‘operating system’ for the music industry, and 3 other things we learned from founder Mattias Hjelmstedt’s new interview

In a rare interview on the Dealmakers podcast with Alejandro Cremades, Utopia founder Mattias Hjelmstedt dropped some hints as to what has been happening with the company

Analysis

Hipgnosis Songs Fund may soon sell some copyrights. Why – and who might be the buyer?

What's happening with one of the week's big stories – and where we think it might go in future

Analysis News

English language music’s popularity on streaming services is shrinking in the US… and globally.

English language music is becoming statistically less popular on streaming services

News

Marty Silverstone promoted to President, Global Sync at Primary Wave

Exec is a 13-year veteran of Primary Wave

News

Elon Musk just launched his own AI company, xAI

Company's stated goal is to 'understand the true nature of the universe.'

News

Reservoir acquires catalog of rock artist and songwriter Greg Kihn

Deal includes publishing, recording, and distribution rights to Kihn’s Beserkley Records era catalog

Interviews

Key Songs In The Life Of… Gary Gersh

AEG's President of Global Touring and Talent talks us through the tracks that have meant the most to him

News

Universal Music Group calls on US Congress to pass new rules regulating AI

Jeffrey Harleston, General Counsel and EVP for Business and Legal Affairs at UMG, appeared a Senate hearing this week

News

Superstar Chinese singer-songwriter Tia Ray inks global publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Group

Tia Ray is the first and only Chinese singer to be listed on IFPI’s Top 10 Global Singles Chart

Analysis News

Hipgnosis Songs Fund’s like-for-like net revenues rose 10.9% in FY 2023, streaming revenues up 14.8% last year

Firm calls period its strongest FY performance since its IPO five years ago

News

Rami Mohsen appointed Managing Director of Sony Music Middle East

Mohsen previously served as the Head of Music - Middle East, North Africa & South Asia Subset at Spotify

Analysis Blog

‘We should all be keeping a close eye on HYBE and how it fares in its quest to rival major labels on a worldwide basis.’

The following op/ed from MBW founder Tim Ingham first appeared as the leader in the latest issue of MBW’s premium quarterly sister publication, MBUK

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Hipgnosis Song Management makes three key appointments: Danny Bennett, Sara Lord and Patrick Joest

Bennett joins as Executive Vice President, Lord joins as Executive Vice President, Content Creation and Patrick Joest named Head of Synchronisation

News

Sony Music Masterworks’ Terrapin Station acquires event producer Black Ink Presents

Sony Music Masterworks is continuing its campaign of acquisitions in the live music space

News

Snoop Dogg joins $20m Series A funding round for music NFT platform, Sound

Series A funding round led by a16z crypto.

News

OpenAI secures license to access training data from Shutterstock… including its music libraries

Shutterstock and OpenAI inked their original deal in 2021

Analysis News

On-demand audio streams grew 13.5% to reach 616.5bn in the US in H1… and 5 other key stats from Luminate’s midyear report

On-demand song streams (including audio and video streams) grew 15% YoY to 713.5bn in the US last year, while on-demand audio streams grew 13.5% to reach 616.5bn