News European Parliament working on music streaming market report Artists' remuneration from music streaming expected to “dominate” the study, reports Politico
News SESAC Music Group acquires Nashville-based music administration company Music Services Company will continue to function as a standalone business within SESAC Music Group
News FTC asks US court to block Microsoft’s $69bn takeover of Activision Blizzard US Federal Trade Commission is asking a court to block the sale of video game giant Activision Blizzard to Microsoft
News Concord renews partnership with Pan-European licensing hub ICE Core in multi-year deal ICE was formed by three collection societies: PRS for Music (UK), STIM (Sweden) and GEMA (Germany)
News Warner Music Group ventures into games publishing with ‘Invector: Rhythm Galaxy’ WMG parters with game studio, Hello There Games
Analysis Universal and SoundCloud are in talks over a new way to pay artists for streaming MBW Explains is a series of analytical features in which we explore the context behind major music industry talking points – and suggest what might happen next.
News Meta just released an AI music generator that was trained on 20,000 hours of licensed music Researchers at Facebook's parent company have developed an AI text-to-music generator called MusicGen
News TuneCore partners with Grimes to distribute AI collaborations TuneCore artists can distribute collaborations created through Grimes' Elf.Tech AI to streaming platforms
News Indie distributor Redeye and SESAC’s AudioSalad ink partnership for global digital delivery and technical services AudioSalad was acquired by SESAC Music Group in March of this year
News Firebird and D’Amelio family launch multi-million-dollar talent management venture (report) Firebird was founded by former Ticketmaster exec Nathan Hubbard and ex-KKR partner Nat Zilkha
News After acquiring Soundtrap in 2017, Spotify sells the music making platform back to its founders The streaming giant acquired Stockholm-based platform in November 2017
News As sped-up remixes take over TikTok, Universal releases compilation album of sped-up hits ‘Sped Up Songs: Official Remixes from Viral Creators and Speed Radio' features remixes of tracks by Sam Smith, Lana Del Rey and more
News Nile Rodgers named as Apple Music’s Artist in Residence focusing on Spatial Audio Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio was rolled out on Apple Music in June 2021
Analysis News From Deezer’s AI music strategy, to who HYBE might try to buy in Latin Music… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place
Interviews ‘We are witnessing a resurgence of hip-hop across Africa.’ MBW’s World Leaders series interviews Wale Davies, Sony Music Publishing's Head of A&R for Africa
News BTS become first artist to use TikTok’s ‘new release’ promotional tool, for new single ‘Take Two’ New tool lets artists highlight a new track to fans for up to 14 days before release, and for 30 days after release
Analysis HYBE is raising a stack of capital to buy Latin Music companies. Who might it target? MBW picks out 10 companies that might just be on the minds of Scooter Braun and HYBE Chairman, Bang Si-Hyuk
News DistroKid faces potential class-action lawsuit over how it handles takedown requests Complaint argues that DistroKid breached its fiduciary duty