Music Business News: North America

22,100 artists generated over $50k on Spotify last year. The company argues that ‘way more artists are generating meaningful money now than in any previous era of the music industry’.

MBW interviews Charlie Hellman, Spotify's Global Head of Music Vertical

Amanda Kingsland, Shawn Marino named co-heads of A&R at Universal Music Canada

The duo have “a renewed mandate to sign, develop, and break the next generation of Canadian artists on the world stage”

Tyla producer Sammy SoSo hit with lawsuit over Grammy-winning hit ‘Water’

Lawsuit was filed by Olmo Zucca and Jackson LoMastro

GetReal Security raises $17.5m to combat AI deepfakes

GetReal says it 'specializes in the detection and mitigation of malicious generative AI threats'

Sony Music Publishing signs producer MTech to global deal

The deal covers MTech's future songs and catalog, which includes a number of Kendrick Lamar hits

Apple Music integrates with DJ apps to let subscribers mix their entire music library

Launch builds on Apple Music's previous DJ-focused initiatives

AI music remixing platform Hook raises $3m from Kygo’s Palm Tree Crew, The Raine Group and more

Hook’s unique selling proposition is that it offers a remedy to the proliferation of unlicensed content on social media

Chappell Roan producer Daniel Nigro’s Amusement Records to operate as ‘central label venture’ within Universal as part of expanded partnership with UMG

Amusement to operate as a "central label venture" within UMG