News Primary Wave buys artist royalties of Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer and founding member, Bob Burns Company says 'multi-million dollar deal' encompasses all recordings from the band’s first two albums
News Apple Music Classical streaming app officially launches App is now available worldwide where Apple Music is offered
News Turntable LIVE raises $7m in seed round to launch social music platform Round was led by Founders Fund and f7 Ventures
News Tuned Global names Pacemaker co-founder Jonas Norberg as first Head of AI Company is also expanding its technical team in Europe
Analysis Blog ‘It takes time to deliver this level of change and not everyone is able to move at the same pace’. In this op/ed, PPL CIO Mark Douglas looks at the evolution and benefits of the Virtual Recordings Database
News Kakao launched a new virtual K-Pop group called MAVE, and the first single has already generated 20m streams on Spotify Virtual group also 172,000 subscribers on YouTube
News France becomes latest country to ban TikTok on government devices Ban applies to 'recreational apps' including Twitter, Instagram and Netflix
News After securing $100m loan facility to buy music rights, Switzerland-based MusicBird acquires Midge Ure catalog Company says it has acquired the writers share, master recording and neighboring rights income on over 300 songs
Analysis News Believe has cash ‘firepower’ for acquisitions in 2023. What’s it going to buy? Company published its full-year financial results on March 15
News Epic Games to share 40% of Fortnite purchase revenue with ‘island’ creators Epic says that its flagship game has more than half a billion player accounts
Analysis Blog What impact will Metallica’s pressing plant acquisition have on the vinyl industry? This op/ed comes from long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde
News Donald Glover beats ‘This Is America’ copyright infringement lawsuit Lawsuit was filed in 2021 by Emelike Nwosuocha (aka rapper Kidd Wes)
Analysis From $26.2 billion to TikTok defending itself… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories on MBW from the past seven days
News Kakao Entertainment plots global expansion via the US, strikes partnership with Sony’s Columbia Records Partnership includes 'global management' of rising K-Pop stars, IVE
Analysis 38 million tracks on music streaming services were played ZERO times in 2022. (Or: why Spotify should take a leaf out of Elon Musk’s book.) Should Spotify, in a quest to improve its margin, start playing hardball with its least successful artists?
Analysis Blog ‘Yes, AI is the future of music – but not in the way you’d think.’ The following op-ed comes from Oleg Stavitsky, CEO of AI-powered sound app Endel
News Cutting Edge acquires ‘major’ film music catalog from First Score Music in multi-million dollar deal Company says acquisition gives it full master and publishing rights to more than 75 'premium' film scores