Analysis News Exclusive: Scooter Braun wanted to sell Taylor Swift her masters. What happened? If you were gripped by MBW's investigation into this saga last week... buckle up
News Warner Music Group buys stake in Hungarian record label Magneoton Financial terms of the stake purchase were not disclosed in a press release announcing the move
News BMI rate court victory challenged by live concert industry titans Live Nation and other concert giants file notice to appeal the ruling with the US Court of Appeals
News Music database Jaxsta raises $2m in new share placement New share placement resulted in Australian tech billionaire Richard White becoming a major shareholder
News BMG acquires Paul Simon royalty streams from Simon & Garfunkel recordings in ‘significant transaction’ Deal does not cover Simon's work as a solo artist
Analysis News The US recorded music industry grew by $500m on a wholesale basis in 2022. The US music publishing industry grew by nearly double that amount. Boosted by CRB result and record performance income, the US music publishing industry flew last year
News Sacem’s revenues jumped 34% to $1.49bn in 2022. How did that compare to other leading PROs? Sacem paid out €1.056 billion ($1.112 billion) to authors, composers and publishers worldwide in the year, marking a 19% YoY jump
News Cinq Music invests in Street Mob Records, fortifying its position in regional Mexican genre Cinq has raised large amounts of money through a series of funding rounds over the past several years, including a $100-million injection from GoDigital in 2022
News Primary Wave acquires portion of ‘The Final Countdown’ singer-songwriter Joey Tempest’s publishing catalog Deal encompasses five albums
News peermusic acquires song catalog of bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs and majority of the song catalog of his son, Gary Scruggs Peermusic is the long-time publisher of Earl Scruggs song catalog
Analysis News Microsoft is developing an AI rap generator, DeepRapper – trained on a large set of songs ‘crawled’ from the web DeepRapper is one of a number of projects being developed in China by Microsoft's Muzic AI team
Analysis News AI is an ‘iPhone moment’ for the music biz, and 3 other things we learned from Guy Oseary’s interview at the NMPA’s annual meeting Four things we learned from Oseary’s chat with NMPA President and CEO David Israelite
News Niall Horan signs exclusive worldwide deal with Universal Music Publishing Group Horan has sold over 80 million records and toured the globe multiple times as a member of One Direction
News Iconic Tamla Records label relaunched by Capitol Music Group and Capitol CMG EJ Gaines, current SVP of Marketing for Capitol CMG, has been named to oversee the label’s roster of artists and staff
News Motown Records strikes metaverse partnership with Second Life and music for games platform STYNGR Partnership includes virtual venue and dedicated Motown Records radio station in Second Life curated by Motown and STYNGR
News Spotify to launch more expensive ‘Supremium’ tier that includes HiFi audio (report) Daniel Ek's company is reportedly readying an entirely new, higher-priced subscription tier
News Seat Unique, an online marketplace for exclusive live event tickets, raises $9m in series A fundraising Funding was led by London-based firm Nickleby Capital
News SM Entertainment resolves contract dispute with three EXO members (report) Dispute revolved around the duration of their contracts