Music Business News: Europe

Chord Music Partners’ John Chapman on the next wave of capital heading for music rights

Alongside Sam Hendel, Chapman runs Dundee Partners, the investment office of the Hendel family

Spotify extends ‘Verified’ badges to podcasts, further cracking down on AI impersonators

Data from Podcast Index suggests that AI-generated shows now account for more than a third of new podcast feeds.

FUGA renews global distribution partnership with Insomniac Music Group

Downtown Music-owned FUGA first struck its partnership with Insomniac Music Group in November 2022.

Evan Whikehart named General Manager, North America at IDOL, as Paris-headquartered indie says its annual revenue topped $50m globally last year

Whikehart joins from Secretly Distribution

Sony Music Publishing UK signs songwriter and producer MNEK to global deal

The deal covers future works written by the London and LA-based hitmaker

Udio CEO Andrew Sanchez on ‘walled gardens’ in AI music, Warner-Suno, and why he’s skeptical of attribution engines

Sanchez spoke at a MBW x Raine breakfast networking event in London this morning

Primary Wave acquires interests in album art collection from Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, co-founder of British design studio Hipgnosis

Design studio founded by Powell and the late Storm Thorgerson in the 1960's

From Sony Music Publishing’s $4 billion catalog deal to Live Nation’s ‘blue dot fever’ rebuttal… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up

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