News Germany’s recorded music business generated USD $2.73B in 2025 – up just 2.3% YoY Results for the market published on Thursday (February 26) by the German Music Industry Association, BVMI
News Kanye West beats most ‘Donda’ copyright claims over ‘Hurricane’ and ‘Moon’ brought by Artist Revenue Advocates A federal judge has dismissed the bulk of infringement claims against the rapper.
News HYBE posts $20M court deposit to delay Min Hee-Jin payment as ex-ADOR CEO offers settlement (report) HYBE posted the deposit as part of its request for a stay of enforcement to delay payment until the ruling is finalized, Korea JoongAng Daily reported.
News Guji Lorenzana promoted to Director, A&R and Client Development, APAC, at Symphonic Distribution Symphonic promotes Guji Lorenzana, expands APAC team, and announces new Asia signings
News High-res music service Qobuz joins France’s Deezer in flagging AI-generated tracks on its platform AI-generated tracks that appear to have been uploaded fraudulently will be removed from Qobuz.
Analysis An open letter to Suno’s Mikey Shulman. MBW founder, Tim Ingham, on Suno, streaming fraud statistics, Fortnite, funerals, red lights, and sad eyes.
Interviews How Jeff Waye and Patrick Curley built Third Side Music into an indie publishing powerhouse with USD $25M in annual revenues MBW's Trailblazers meets Jeff Waye, Co-Founder and COO, and Patrick Curley, Co-Founder, President and CEO, of independent publisher Third Side Music
News Reservoir receives unsolicited $1.2B bid from activist investor Irenic Capital (report) Reservoir's shares jumped as much as 15% on Thursday (February 26) following the report.
News From the ‘Say No to Suno’ campaign to GoldState securing ‘significant’ investment from Bridgepoint… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up The biggest headlines from the past few days...
News Primary Wave in talks to potentially acquire Kobalt Music Group Francisco Partners mulls earlier-than-expected sale
News US appeals court overturns BMI rate hike on concert promoters, ruling rates were ‘unreasonable’ The organization's rate court victory has been vacated and sent back to the lower court.
News Julie Lamb promoted to Chief Talent Officer at AEG’s AXS; Jason Boxer upped to Chief Financial Officer Lamb was previously SVP of Human Resources, while Boxer served as SVP of Accounting and Finance.
News Charles Goldstuck’s GoldState secures ‘significant’ Bridgepoint investment for growth equity fund targeting music companies A source close to the details told MBW: 'Charles is looking to deploy up to a billion dollars in growth equity capital over the next few years.'
News The Circuit Group launches indie artist and label services arm, Beat Switch Beat Switch Music Services has been operating quietly for the past 24 months, and now supports more than 20 independent labels.
News Suno: We’ve hit 2M paid subscribers and $300M annual revenue CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman shared the figures this week, two years after the platform's launch
Analysis ‘End Streaming Fraud.’ The following MBW op/ed comes from Victoria Oakley, Chief Executive Officer of the IFPI, and Mitch Glazier, CEO of the RIAA
Analysis Sony Group’s blueprint for AI music detection tech is promising. Here’s what it’s working on… MBW reacts to three research papers detailed by Sony AI.
News DOJ fires back at Live Nation’s ‘desperate’ bid to delay antitrust trial, says motion is legally barred The DOJ filed the opposition brief on Tuesday (February 24)