News Katie Soo appointed Chief Business Officer at mobile ticketing firm DICE Company reports that 2022 was its biggest year to date
News Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak amongst hundreds of tech and science leaders calling for 6-month pause on ‘training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4’ Other signatories include three researchers from Google/Alphabet's DeepMind
Analysis The major record companies release around 3,900 tracks every day. Their problem? That’s a drop in the ocean. The major music companies release only 4% of the daily deluge of tracks hitting audio and video streaming services, new data shows.
Interviews ‘Bad Bunny and Rosalia are just the tip of a very large artistic iceberg. The creative force of Latin Music is unstoppable.’ In this feature, we speak to Nando Luaces, CEO of Madrid-based distributor and Latin Music specialist Altafonte
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