Music Business News: North America

Dan Nigro on changing the pop landscape with Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan

The hottest-to-go songwriter around right now talks to MBW about writing some of the biggest hits of the last few years, TikTok and launching his own label

Interviews

‘I love seeing how far dance music has come. This is not a fad.’

Mariesa Stevens, Partner and Vice President at specialist live agency Liaison Artists, on the growth and power of dance music - and putting the importance of putting the fan experience first

Analysis News

Amazon Music to bundle Audiobooks from Audible – and unlike Spotify’s bundling move, publishers say it won’t decrease revenue for songwriters

Audible’s library includes a US catalog of more than 1 million audiobooks

News

Kevin Lipson appointed Chief Revenue Officer at Republic Records

Lipson will oversee revenue strategy at Universal's East Coast-based group of labels, including Republic, Mercury, Def Jam, and Island

News

Suno, after being sued by the majors for copyright infringement, launches V4, which it says takes AI music creation ‘to the next level’

The company has also hired Jack Brody, formerly of Snap, as its Chief Product Officer

News

Taylor Lindsey promoted to Chairman and CEO of Sony Music Nashville

Ken Robold also named President and Chief Operating Officer of Sony Music Nashville

Analysis

Generative AI opt-outs are unfair and unworkable. Let’s drop the pretense that they’re some sort of compromise.

The following MBW Views op/ed comes from Ed Newton-Rex, CEO of the ethical generative AI non-profit, Fairly Trained

Analysis News

Universal Music Group’s stake in Spotify is now worth $3 billion. Is it time to sell?

With Spotify's share price at an all time high, UMG and Sony jointly own more than $5 billion in stock