Music Business News: Europe Analysis News Global recorded music revenues grew 9.8% YoY to $35.1bn in 2023, says MIDiA ResearchMIDiA estimates that streaming revenues reached $21.9bn in 2023 News AI vocal cloning app Voicify offers 3,000 deepfake models to replicate artists’ voices. Now it faces legal action from the UK’s music industryBPI has sent a letter to Voicify, now known as Jammable, threatening legal action if the app doesn't stop enabling users to create unauthorized music deepfakes News Barcelona appeals court rules that Spanish authors’ society SGAE ‘abused its position’ in the market, in victory for rival UNISONSGAE's all-or-nothing rights contracts with its members prevented the liberalization of the rights market in Spain, competitor UNISON says News Snafu Records pledges $1M to bridge gender gap in music industry with Women’s Creator FundThe AI-driven record company is setting up a fund and a support network for women creators in music Analysis Down The Skibidi Toilet: Why Universal Music Group’s ‘Project Timeout’ is hitting TikTok with endless copyright takedown requestsThere is a lot to explain here.... News Deezer has deleted 26m ‘useless’ tracks since it launched artist-centric model with Universal Music GroupThe idea is to "declutter the platform" and "focus on tracks that are valuable to our users" according to CEO Jeronimo Folgueira Analysis News Recorded music trade revenues in the UK grew 8.1% YoY to $1.77bn last yearThe UK is the world's third largest recorded music market behind the United States and Japan, respectively Analysis Blog On… the value of ‘storytelling’ in the marketplace of ideasThe following op/ed comes from long-time music industry journalist, Eamonn Forde 1 2 … 683 Next
Analysis News Global recorded music revenues grew 9.8% YoY to $35.1bn in 2023, says MIDiA ResearchMIDiA estimates that streaming revenues reached $21.9bn in 2023
News AI vocal cloning app Voicify offers 3,000 deepfake models to replicate artists’ voices. Now it faces legal action from the UK’s music industryBPI has sent a letter to Voicify, now known as Jammable, threatening legal action if the app doesn't stop enabling users to create unauthorized music deepfakes
News Barcelona appeals court rules that Spanish authors’ society SGAE ‘abused its position’ in the market, in victory for rival UNISONSGAE's all-or-nothing rights contracts with its members prevented the liberalization of the rights market in Spain, competitor UNISON says
News Snafu Records pledges $1M to bridge gender gap in music industry with Women’s Creator FundThe AI-driven record company is setting up a fund and a support network for women creators in music
Analysis Down The Skibidi Toilet: Why Universal Music Group’s ‘Project Timeout’ is hitting TikTok with endless copyright takedown requestsThere is a lot to explain here....
News Deezer has deleted 26m ‘useless’ tracks since it launched artist-centric model with Universal Music GroupThe idea is to "declutter the platform" and "focus on tracks that are valuable to our users" according to CEO Jeronimo Folgueira
Analysis News Recorded music trade revenues in the UK grew 8.1% YoY to $1.77bn last yearThe UK is the world's third largest recorded music market behind the United States and Japan, respectively
Analysis Blog On… the value of ‘storytelling’ in the marketplace of ideasThe following op/ed comes from long-time music industry journalist, Eamonn Forde