Music Business News: North America

Apple’s Shazam surpasses 70bn song recognitions

Timeline of key milestones and stats released by Apple for its song recognition app, Shazam

From TikTok’s music patent to BMI scrapping sale plans… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

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Glassnote hires Alison Dannenberg Frost as Head of Sync and Licensing

Alison Dannenberg Frost joins indie label, Glassnote Records, as Head of Sync and Licensing. She will work out of their Los Angeles office.

Kobalt to launch NFT collection, becoming ‘first global music publisher to release a set of fully licensed direct-to-fan NFTs’

Music lyric NFT collection is called An Electro Revival, in collaboration with Ghanaian visual artist, Afroscope

Allison Hamamura to head ONErpm’s Los Angeles office as GM

ONErpm has also promoted Los Angeles-based Joseph Aldulaimi to VP of A&R

Beggars Group profits jumped 55% in 2021, as US rights to Adele’s first 3 albums reverted back to XL Recordings

UK-based company turned over GBP £80 million last year

How artists are exploiting lax metadata protections by streaming services

What if tagging the wrong artist pages on DSPs wasn't just a headache to resolve, but also a money-making scheme?

Swizz Beatz and Timbaland hit Triller with $28m lawsuit over alleged missing Verzuz payments

Livestreamed beat battle event was acquired by Triller in January 2021