News Apple Music, Deezer, TIDAL pull down viral AI ‘fake Drake and The Weeknd’ track (update) Ghostwriter's heart on my sleeve has now surpassed 625,000 plays on Spotify
News HYBE’s Weverse helped it generate over $50m from fan club activities last year. Now SM Entertainment artists are joining the superfan platform Platform brings together artist-related content such as music videos, teasers, movies and live streams
News Lawmakers in US state of Montana pass bill to ban TikTok Lawmakers in the US state voted in favor of the move on Friday (April 14)
News Voice AI firm SoundHound secures $100m in strategic financing AI-powered speech and music recognition company secures $100m in strategic financing from Atlas Credit Partners
News John Minch transitions to songwriter advocacy role at Concord, Jeff Van Driel promoted to GM, International Operations Minch to step back from day-to-day managing of international publishing operations
News This AI Drake rip-off already has 250,000 plays on Spotify. How will the music industry respond? Ghostwriter's heart on my sleeve is bound to ignite intra-industry music biz tensions this week
News Google must go to trial in Sonos patent infringement case, says judge Sonos sued Google for patent infringement in 2020
News TV-based music streaming service Roxi raises $8.7m, plans expansion into the US Company says it offers 90m music videos and 400,000 karaoke tracks
News Position Music sells minority stake to Vesper, whose founders were involved in Kobalt investment Most historical Kobalt investors exited the company following its majority sale to US-based Francisco Partners in 2022, a deal believed to be worth around USD $750 million
News Spotify to shutter music trivia game Heardle – less than a year after acquiring it Heardle lets players guess a song based on its opening notes
News From Universal clamping down on AI copycats to Latin music’s $1bn in the US… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories on MBW from the past seven days
News Top sports agent Rich Paul joins Live Nation Board of Directors Exec is founder and CEO of sports agency KLUTCH Sports Group, and Head of Sports at UTA
Interviews How independent South African music company The T Effect plans to ‘create a new wave of African Global Superstars’ The T Effect's co-founders Tshiamo Letshwene and Nhlanhla ‘Nivo’ Ndimande tell us about the company's global ambitions
News Music streaming contributed over $14bn to the US economy in 2021, according to DiMa study DiMA's 'The Impact of Digital Music Streaming' report was published earlier this week
News Fitness app Strava integrates Spotify to let users stream songs, podcasts while tracking workouts Strava's users can now play, pause, resume, skip, and browse Spotify from within its app
News Snapchat strikes new music licensing deals with UnitedMasters, BUMA/STEMRA and more Snapchat already has existing licensing deals with major record labels and music publishers
News Reservoir buys Mannie Fresh’s catalog, including publishing and recorded music rights Mannie Fresh spent a large portion of his career producing for Cash Money Records
News Digital sheet music startup Enote raises €10M in pre-series A fundraising Enote’s funding round comes amid increased investor appetite for classical music