News Canada’s Competition Bureau fines StubHub CAD $1.3m Firm fined for 'misleading pricing claims in the online sale of tickets to entertainment and sporting events'
News The Beatles’ Apple Corps wins $77m default judgment in trademark infringement lawsuit over fake merch Suit was filed in Florida last year
News Artificial Intelligence made a song in the style of Travis Scott. It sounds unnervingly like Travis Scott. "She got the crew on top of my chain (It's lit); Wasted in the street like a pain (Straight up)."
Analysis YouTube says it paid the music industry over $3bn last year – equivalent to 20% of its annual ad revenue. Is that good? On balance, YouTube looks likely to have just become the global music industry's second biggest streaming partner
News Universal Music: legal case over alleged damages in 2008 warehouse fire ‘meritless’ Response follows confirmation of lost recordings in new legal filing
News New specialist music streaming platform, jazzed, launches in the UK Licensing terms have been agreed with the majors
News Universal Music Group is now an $8bn-a-year company, as streaming revenues surge 21.5% in record 2019 Company now generates more than $11m every day from streaming
News Universal Music Group set for IPO in the next 3 years News comes a week after Access Industries and Warner Music Group announced their intention to go public
News Ticketmaster expands into Asia by acquiring Tixcraft in Taiwan and launching new Singapore office Chad Phillips has been appointed to Managing Director Ticketmaster Asia
News Downtown ups Andrew Sparkler to EVP, Global Business Development amidst raft of promotions and new hires Bruce Lampcov also promoted, to SVP of Global Business Development
News Touts who ran £11m ticket reselling scheme found guilty of fraud in the UK Tickets were resold for events including Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift concerts
News Rap & production duo Frankie Stew and Harvey Gunn sign with Absolute Duo have more than 21m streams across Spotify and Apple Music
Interviews ‘Downtown is an ideal combination of technology and creativity, with an international mindset built in its DNA.’ Downtown Music Publishing's Laura Bedikian and Charles Braud give MBW an insight into France's publishing sector and the company's position in the market...
News Primary Wave buys publishing and master royalty stream of Gasoline Alley, including works by Sublime Gasoline Alley is an entity owned by music managers Arnold Stiefel and Randy Phillips
News Scooter Braun joins $22m funding round for cannabis company… but he’s not the first major artist manager to invest in CBD Bill Curbishley, Ian McAndrew and Colin Lester are all investors in $5m-backed Apothem Labs
News Streaming and playlisting expert Kieron Donoghue signs up as MBW’s new columnist Warner's former global boss of playlisting will join the likes of Cherie Hu and Peter Robinson on our pages
News Amanda Samii named Senior Vice President of A&R for Capitol Records Exec joins Capitol after 10 years at Kobalt Music Publishing
Analysis Blog The Great Secret Of The Modern Music Business MBW columnist Peter Robinson on the role of the music critic, and the reality of today's industry