Music Business News: North America

As YouTube Music hits 100m paid subscribers, Lyor Cohen says the platform ‘cares profoundly about the health of the music industry’

YouTube has surpassed 100 million paid YouTube Music and Premium subscribers worldwide

78% of small-to-midsize businesses in the US currently misuse personal streaming accounts to play music to their customers. It’s costing the music industry $1.38 billion per year.

Ola Sars highlights an important opportunity in publicly-played music for rightsholders

TikTok’s biggest headache in its fight with Universal Music Group is UMG’s publishing catalog (and 2 other observations on the feud the whole music industry is talking about)

What's really going on behind the scenes of music's big Grammy Week fall-out

USTR’s ‘Notorious Markets’ Report doesn’t mention AI-voice cloning, despite RIAA’s efforts

The USTR report identifies a 'complex ecosystem' of online services that enable digital piracy

Warner Chappell Music signs Grammy-nominated R&B artist Coco Jones to exclusive publishing deal

Jones is up for five awards at the forthcoming 66th Annual Grammys

Big Machine Label ups Mike Rittberg to COO, Clay Hunnicutt to EVP, Label Operations

Rittberg, a veteran of Universal Music Group, joined Big Machine in 2017, while Hunnicutt, formerly of Big Loud, joined in 2019

US Copyright Office launches review of The MLC and DLC’s designations

The periodic review is mandated under the US's Music Modernization Act of 2018

Coldplay and Warner Music team up with MIT and Live Nation to tackle environmental impact of concerts

A study to be released this year will assess the carbon footprint of concerts and suggest practical solutions to reduce emissions