Music Business News: China
Analysis Surveying the landscape of a battle between music's biggest rightsholder and ByteDance's video juggernaut News This Friday (March 1), TikTok's current license for the Universal Music Publishing Group catalog – spanning some 4 million songs – officially expires Analysis News It's a surprising claim from the ByteDance company... Analysis Kyncl is planning 'as much automation as possible,' and more lobbying for higher prices at music streaming services News Andrew Bergman, David Israelite, Merck Mercuriadis all publicly support UMG's position Analysis What's really going on behind the scenes of music's big Grammy Week fall-out News TikTok spokesperson says platform is "sad and disappointed" by UMG statement from earlier today News Apple Music Classical launched in March 2023, following Apple’s acquisition of Netherlands-based classical music streaming service Primephonic in 2021