News Pacific Music Group expands to Tokyo with launch of PMG Japan, signs Japanese rapper JP THE WAVY PMG says JP THE WAVY is PMG Japan's first major signing and that he will begin releasing new music through the partnership this fall.
News HYBE’s Weverse Con Festival to make its international debut in India in 2027 HYBE, home of BTS, calls Weverse Con Festival its “flagship global music festival”, featuring global, K-pop and Indian artists.
News EMPIRE Publishing hires Rimas Publishing’s Emilio Morales as SVP, Business Development for Latin America Morales joins from Rimas Publishing, the company behind the publishing catalog of Bad Bunny, where he served as Managing Director.
Analysis Did The Music Industry Underprice Streaming In Emerging Markets? (AKA: How I’d Spend $10k Of Mike O’Neill’s Money) The latest 'Tim's Take' from MBW founder, Tim Ingham
News Music streaming fraud inquiry launched by US Copyright Office Notice of inquiry arrives a day after Michael Smith sentenced to 18 months in prison
News Phono V streaming rate proposals filed with US Copyright Royalty Board, as DIMA points to 30% growth in publishing revenues since 2022 The proceeding will set the mechanical rates on-demand streaming services pay US songwriters and publishers from 2028 through 2032.
News Kakao Entertainment strikes K-pop partnership with Warner’s Atlantic Music Group to develop artists ‘from the earliest stages’ The two companies will work together on global strategy, music production, distribution, marketing, and promotion for K-pop artists.
Analysis With a new CFO, three licensing deals, and $775M+ raised, what’s stopping $5.4B-valued Suno from an IPO? The signals pointing to the firm's potential stock market ambitions and the barriers it faces in getting there.
News Tencent Music integrated DeepSeek into its streaming service. Now parent company Tencent is among the biggest backers of the AI company’s $12B+ funding round (report) DeepSeek has been built into TME's AI songwriting tool, AI assistant, comment sections, and more
News Majors and BMG tell US Supreme Court not to let appeals court decision ‘radically disrupt copyright worldwide’ in songwriter termination rights case January 12 ruling held that termination under US law returns an author's rights across the world, and not only in the US
News ARIA boss tells Australian lawmakers OpenAI and Anthropic are ‘asking Government for a free ride’ on copyright Annabelle Herd warned that changing Australian copyright law to accommodate the two AI companies could make the country "the Trojan horse for Big AI."
News TikTok brings its global ad network to the US and unveils agentic AI tools The ad network, called TikTok Ad Network (TTAN), lets advertisers extend their TikTok campaigns to third-party apps.
News AEG and O2 strike UK’s ‘largest-ever naming rights renewal’ in reported £200M deal Under the deal, O2 and Virgin Media broadband customers will get 50% more tickets to shows at The O2 through Priority Tickets.
News Michael Smith, man behind $8M AI song and bot streaming fraud, sentenced to 18 months in prison US District Judge John G. Koeltl also ordered Michael Smith to forfeit USD $8,091,843.64, the loss figure agreed by both sides.
News Google picks Base for Music for its Gemini Startup Forum – as $1.7M-backed French company says it uses AI to predict music marketing ROI More than 100 startups taking part, from 17 countries, were selected from over 2,000 applications, according to Google
News GoDigital Music expands in Asia with Pony Canyon partnership and appointment of Sebastian Mair as President, APAC Mair's background includes roles at Creativeman Productions, Fujipacific Music, Live Nation Japan, AEG Presents, and Ubisoft.
News Thomas Rhett launches Fifty-One/Forty-Nine Records with HYBE America’s Blue Highway, in deal he says gives him ‘the opportunity to own’ his body of work Blue Highway describes Fifty-One/Forty-Nine as an artist-led record company "built around long-term ownership, creative independence and artist development."
News Adriana Sein joins Believe as President, Americas Exec most recently served as SVP & Global Head of Artist & Market Development at WMG's ADA