Music Business News: North America

‘A&R is based on three things: trust, relationship and accountability.’

After more than two decades with the majors, Amanda Hill now heads up Runner Music, the publishing company founded in 2023 by Ryan Tedder, Ron Laffitte and Andrew Sparkler. Here she discusses her career to date, artist development and archaic business models

Miley Cyrus taps TikTok for ‘Something Beautiful’ album launch campaign

Campaign features exclusive in-app experience and private listening party.

Labels in licensing talks with AI music generators Suno and Udio (report)

Reported talks arrive a year after the majors sued Suno and Udio for copyright infringement

From Taylor Swift’s masters victory to HYBE’s eventful week… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days

Scott Levine appointed Chief Executive Officer of TouchTunes

TouchTunes owns connected jukeboxes in more than 65,000 venues across North America and Europe

Jazmyn Griffin and Tessie Lammle join Wasserman Music to expand Hip-Hop/R&B division

The two new hires will work on Hip-Hop/R&B projects across Wasserman's Global Festivals and artist representation teams.

Round Hill, with $1.1bn music portfolio, strikes flurry of catalog acquisitions

Round Hill Music's portfolio features 200,000 copyrights

Live Nation expands presence in Latin America via acquisition of Dominican Republic promoter SD Concerts

Saymon Diaz, Founder & CEO of SD Concerts, will continue to lead the business