News Sony Music Publishing acquires Big Yellow Dog Music Company was founded in 1998 by Kerry O’Neil and Carla Wallace and based in Nashville
News Hannah Poferl appointed Chief Data Officer at Universal Music Group Poferl comes to UMG from The New York Times, where she headed the newspaper's data operations
News BTS World Tour: The ‘biggest global K-pop tour of all time’ to span 79 shows across 34 regions The Live Nation-promoted tour will feature a 360-degree, in-the-round stage design.
News Rostrum Pacific inks direct deals with Spotify, TikTok; appoints Samantha Moore to lead new distro platform SpaceHeater SpaceHeater will operate through direct relationships with Amazon and Tidal, along with other major digital storefronts.
News Musical AI raises $4.5m to scale AI attribution tech The startup’s technology identifies what percentage of a generated output came from which source.
News Cutting Edge acquires music catalog of composer John Paesano, including scores from ‘Maze Runner’ and ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ The deal includes music from franchises that have generated over $1.8 billion at the global box office.
News BMG to move global HQ to renovated Lumina building in Berlin in 2027 The move puts BMG in the former Galeries Lafayette building just two blocks from its current Berlin offices.
Interviews ‘When you can’t see the whole picture, you don’t truly understand what’s going on in your business.’ Absolute Label Services co-bosses, Henry Semmence and Simon Wills discuss Anthology, a new system they believe is key to the future of their company – and the success of their clients…
News Lizzo settles copyright lawsuit over unreleased song snippet referencing Sydney Sweeney jeans ad A notice of settlement was filed in federal court in California on January 9.
Analysis Elon Musk’s legal attack on the music industry: 3 things you might have missed MBW delves into the 53-page lawsuit issued by X Corp against most significant players in the music publishing business
News Los Lobos sue Sony Music & Sony Pictures over ‘La Bamba’ and ‘Desperado’ royalties The L.A.-born rock band alleges an 'egregious' lack of payments for 'Cancion del Mariachi' and a 'massive deficiency' in payments for 'La Bamba'
News Gene Whitney joins HYBE AMERICA as General Counsel Whitney joins HYBE America from Riot Games, where he most recently served as Global Head of Music Business Affairs and Label Operations.
News Managers and agents of Ed Sheeran, Oasis, Olivia Dean, Radiohead, Fontaines D.C. and more urge EU action on ‘predatory ticket resale’ The signatories want the Digital Fairness Act expanded to tackle ticket resale abuse.
News Quebec court greenlights class action against Ticketmaster over ‘unreasonable’ service fees The complaint centers on Ticketmaster’s fee structure that fluctuates based on ticket prices instead of the actual cost of services rendered.
News Johanna Fuentes named Head of Communications and PR at HYBE America Fuentes most recently served as Head of Global Communications for WarnerMedia Studios and Networks Group.
News Bad Bunny faces $16m lawsuit over alleged unauthorized voice recording used in two songs A Puerto Rican woman alleged that Bad Bunny's producer asked her to record a phrase in 2018, which was later used in two of the artist's songs.
News Elon Musk’s X sues major music publishers – plus BMG, Kobalt, NMPA and more – alleging industrywide ‘collusion’ to force licensing deal X’s lawsuit points to successful licensing agreements between the NMPA plus Roblox and Twitch as evidence of an alleged ‘extortionate scheme’.
News From Salt-N-Pepa’s dismissed UMG case to UK music streaming subscription revenues’ 3.2% growth… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up The biggest headlines from the past few days...