David Israelite In The News

Lucas Keller on ambition, songwriters, BMI – and what he’d do if he ran a major record company

As Milk & Honey turns 10 years old, company founder Lucas Keller joins MBW's World's Greatest Managers series. He has some views...

Lin-Manuel Miranda named top artist-songwriter in Q2 2023 on the NMPA Gold & Platinum Program (based on RIAA Certifications)

Ashley Gorley claimed the title of the top non-performing songwriter on the NMPA’s Gold & Platinum Program

Elon Musk’s X files motion to dismiss music publishers’ $250m+ copyright lawsuit; NMPA says platform has ‘consistently failed’ to stop ‘rampant piracy’ on its platform

Twitter / X has filed a motion to dismiss the complaint 'in its entirety'

Spotify is raising its price in the US and 52 other markets. How much money will that make the music industry?

Whether you take a punchy or conservative view, Spotify is about to make a load more money

Spotify to finally raise flagship Premium price in the US next week, reports Wall Street Journal

More price rises coming in multiple global territories from Daniel Ek's company, says WSJ

Spotify had 44.4m US subscribers in February, Apple Music had 32.6m, according to new data

Stats were revealed at the NMPA annual meeting on June 14

The US recorded music industry grew by $500m on a wholesale basis in 2022. The US music publishing industry grew by nearly double that amount.

Boosted by CRB result and record performance income, the US music publishing industry flew last year

AI is an ‘iPhone moment’ for the music biz, and 3 other things we learned from Guy Oseary’s interview at the NMPA’s annual meeting

Four things we learned from Oseary’s chat with NMPA President and CEO David Israelite