Music Business News: North America

Ryan Tedder calls Lindgren ‘the German wunderkind’. Now they’ve inked a partnership deal – as Lindgren renews his agreement with Sony Music Publishing

Deal expands long-standing relationship with SMP

Spotify gives Premium subscribers access to 150,000+ audiobooks, and 15 hours free listening per month

New offer to launch in the UK and Australia on October 4, with a later rollout in the US

After Kylie Minogue album hits No.1 in the UK and Australia, artist’s global streams may be the bigger story for BMG

Tension already has more than 170 million streams worldwide, says BMG

Latin music superfans spend over 30% more on music-related activities than other music superfans in the US (report)

US market monitor Luminate has published its new Latin Music Report

Ex-Spotify exec Jacob Deshayes named Chief Content Officer at Reactional Music; gaming veteran Kelly Sumner appointed Chairman

Reactional claims to be 'the world’s first rule-based music engine, music delivery platform and personalization engine.'

Spotify has patented a ‘digital mixtape’ generator that compiles users’ voice recordings with songs

New patent issued to Spotify describes 'a system for generating and distributing a digital mixtape'.

Lex Borrero’s NEON16 and NTERTAIN expand multi-year partnership with the NFL

NEON16 acts will produce four tracks exclusively for the NFL and its 32 clubs to use as part of their soundtrack to the 2023 season

Evan Bogart’s Seeker Music acquires catalog of Plested, songwriter behind hits for Lewis Capaldi, Niall Horan, Jonas Brothers and more

Founded in 2020, Seeker is led by hitmaker Evan Bogart, who is behind Rihanna’s 2006 No. 1 hit SOS