Music Business News: North America

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Universal Music Group and Music Health Alliance launch Music Industry Mental Health Fund

The new initiative builds on a program that has helped some 1,000 UMG artists and songwriters access health care

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TikTok: 84% of songs that entered Billboard’s Global 200 chart in 2024 went viral on our platform first

TikTok users are much likelier to be superfans than the general population, research from TikTok and Luminate has found

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Dennis Reese appointed SVP, Radio Marketing and Promotion at Sony Music Nashville

Appointment follows Taylor Lindsey's recent promotion to Chairman and CEO of Sony's Nashville division

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Sony generated $2.70 billion from recorded music and publishing in calendar Q4, as ATEEZ topped firm’s global sales chart

Sony’s global music rights operation – across recorded music and music publishing – generated USD $2.70 billion in the three months to end of December 2024. That’s according to MBW’s calculations based on Sony Group Corp’s calendar Q4 2024 (fiscal Q3) results, as announced by the Japanese firm today (February 13). The $2.70 billion figure … Continued

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Using copyrighted content to train AI without permission is not ‘fair use’, US court rules in Thomson Reuters case

However, the ruling might not apply to the music industry’s lawsuits against generative AI developers

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Kevin Ferguson appointed Senior Vice President, Technology at TuneCore

Ferguson previously led the engineering team at BentoBox and has also held leadership roles at Audible and other companies

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Sony Music Publishing renews global deal with K-Pop specialist The Hello Group Publishing

THG Publishing's roster of songwriters and producers are behind various K-Pop and J-Pop hits

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Neil Jacobson’s Hallwood Media inks JV with 9th St, the management company behind Rich Amiri

9th St's roster has amassed over 1.5 billion streams across various DSPs over the past 12 months