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‘Over 20 artists have now gone from nought to a billion streams through AWAL.’

In their first interview since being installed as AWAL’s new UK leadership team, Matt Riley, Victoria Needs and Sam Potts explain how, post-Sony acquisition, the company is still a unique and distinct option for artists…

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AI voice platform Kits.AI, backed by Steve Aoki, Wyclef Jean and more hits 1m ‘voice transformations’

Kits.AI also reports to have trained 80,000 voices and amassed 100,000 users

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Music royalties marketplace MasterExchange raises $2.7m in funding

Platform was launched in 2022 in Stockholm

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Jason Derulo sued over alleged unpaid royalties from megahit ‘Savage Love’

Lawsuit was filed on Monday, July 31 by producer Matthew Spatola

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Dua Lipa faces new lawsuit over ‘Levitating’ as producer Bosko Kante sues for alleged copyright infringement on remixes

Lawyers for Bosko Kante, a music producer, engineer and entrepreneur, filed a complaint on Monday (July 31)

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Reactional Music strikes personalized-music-for-games deal with mobile games publisher Amanotes, which reaches 100m monthly users

Amanotes is claimed to be the number one mobile game publisher in South East Asia with over three billion downloads of its games

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27% of indie artists have used AI music tools, according to TuneCore study

Believe and TuneCore have conducted a survey of close to 1,600 self-releasing artists from over 10 countries

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‘I look at AWAL as the best artist development company in the business.’

AWAL’s global CEO, Lonny Olinick on operating within a major music company – and the elevated ambitions for the firm he leads…

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Catherine Marks: What I wish I’d known

Producer, mixer and engineer Catherine Marks recently got her first UK No.1 as a co-producer on the debut album from indie supergroup boygenius

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‘SoundCloud is here to change the world.’

Emmy Lovell, Global Head of Music at SoundCloud, tells MBW why the streaming service is out to transform the industry for everyone…

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SM Entertainment and Kakao to launch integrated North American division

The aim is to promote artists from both companies

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CTM Outlander buys Dutch music company Strengholt Music Group

Deal marks the latest in a string of acquisitions for CTM Outlander

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Classical label Hyperion starts streaming for the first time following Universal Music acquisition

News comes as UMG sharpens its focus on classical music after launching its own streaming service for classical music through Deutsche Grammophon in November 2022

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Spain’s Unison launches global management platform for digital rights, SOLO

SOLO will be offered through a subscription model and will be compatible with various devices, enabling artists

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Live Nation’s booming earnings aren’t just a post-COVID rebound – and 4 other things we learned from the company’s Q2 earnings call

It's been a wild few days on the stock market for LN's share price

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From Universal’s $2.93bn in Q2 to Spotify’s price hikes in over 50 markets… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

This week's biggest stories...

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‘When you’re seeing Jane’s Addiction or Porno For Pyros on stage, that’s what life’s about. It’s the best job in the world at that point’

Perry Farrell's co-manager, Michael James, talks about working with an alt-rock pioneer and the cultural impact of his client's bands and projects, from Jane's Addiction to Lollapalooza

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Daniel Ek sells $100m worth of Spotify shares

Spotify's CEO is selling 675,000 shares