Music Business News: North America

Stevenson and Signore were both previously in leadership roles at 300 Entertainment

Both streaming and physical recorded music sales up single digits, as publishing division posts double-digit bounce in quarter

Policy change was quietly made to SoundCloud's terms and conditions in February 2024

Anthropic ordered to respond to claims that a data scientist it employed relied on a fictitious academic article

Premium subscribers will be able to verbally customize their listening sessions

The surprise news was confirmed this morning (May 14) by UMG via a corporate announcement

Music publishers have refiled their legal complaint against Anthropic, and the AI company has once again moved to have the case dismissed

According to MBW analysis, Merlin's annual revenues reached GBP £1.19 billion (GBP $1.48 billion) as of 2023