Music Business News: North America

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Landmark legal fight over US music rights termination hots up, as creator orgs weigh in with amicus brief

MAC, co-founded by Susan Genco of The Azoff Company, attacks 'major' industry org's arguments

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Musixmatch says LyricFind trying to ‘distract from its business failures’ with antitrust lawsuit

LyricFind is suing Musixmatch, arguing that an exclusivity deal with Warner Chappell Music violates US antitrust law

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SESAC Music Group raises $889M via whole business securitization, three-times oversubscribed

The WBS transaction, the company's fourth, brings SESAC's total outstanding debt to about $1.1 billion

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Universal Music Group generated $3.38bn in Q2, up 4.5% YoY – driven by Morgan Wallen, timelesz, Lady Gaga

Universal's overall Recorded Music revenue for the second quarter of 2025 was €2.224 billion ($2.52bn), up 3.9% YoY at constant currency.

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Are you watching, Disney? Netflix’s ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ becomes most-viewed original animated film in platform’s history

The film, which premiered on June 20, racked up 106.1 million views in its first month

Interviews

Sean Momberger: ‘If this happened when I was 21, who knows what would have happened? It probably would have been too much.’

Sean Momberger tells his side of the Not Like Us creation story and also discusses his collaboration with Mustard, the secret of successful sampling, and why AI is the future

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Major labels and Merlin back interactive music TV channel ROXi’s debut on US broadcast TV

The service delivers 100 million licensed tracks from Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and Merlin to 31 US markets.

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TikTok’s ‘Add to Music App’ feature has fuelled ‘billions’ of streams. Now it’s linked up with YouTube Music.

YouTube Music joins Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, Melon, Anghami and SoundCloud in TikTok's music-saving feature