Music Business News: Asia

Tat Tong appointed Vice President of A&R and Creative, Asia Pacific at Warner Chappell Music

Exec held various roles at Sony Music Entertainment before joining WCM

This AI tech lets users sing in 10 languages and 15 Chinese dialects. Westlife have used it to release a song in Mandarin via Tencent Music

“Everyone can become a professional singer with AI.”

From Blackstone’s Hipgnosis deal to the US Copyright Office’s ‘landmark’ ruling… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place

Virgin Music Group partners with Japan’s Frontier Works for anime music projects

The global anime market has seen explosive growth in recent years.

Warner Music Japan Chief Operating Officer Kazuhiro Shimada exits

Shimada joined Warner Music Japan in November 2022

Lenzo Yoon, one of the key execs behind the rise of BTS, is leaving HYBE (report)

Exec joined the company in 2010 as Head of Strategic Planning

‘Songwriters and publishers should be seeing a larger slice of the digital pie.’

MBW's World Leaders series meets Spek, PopArabia's Founder and Chief Executive Officer, and Reservoir's Executive Vice President of International and Emerging Markets

Sony Music Japan and Bandai Namco target anime music piracy site Hikari-no-Akari in US federal court

The two companies are seeking to identify the individuals behind a popular site that pirates Japanese music