Music Business News: United States Analysis News Live Nation has already sold 100m tickets in 2025 so far – compared to 98m sold in all of 2019 Live Nation CFO Joe Berchtold talks about pricing, facing a potential economic slowdown, and fixing the company's public relations headaches News Court should reject Drake’s ‘dangerous’ assumption that rap lyrics are factual in case against UMG, scholars argue Diss tracks 'are understood by audiences not to represent factual assertions about the opposing artist,' the scholars argue News Reservoir subsidiary PopIndia strikes its first catalog deal with Musicraft Entertainment acquisition Deal arrives a month after the launch of Reservoir Media's newly established Mumbai subsidiary News Producer Poo Bear launches TTIKR content monetization platform The mobile-first app allows musicians, filmmakers and multimedia artists to set their own prices for content and deal directly with their fans News Universal Music expands iconic Blue Note and Deutsche Grammophon jazz and classical labels into China Labels launch in China as part of strategic expansion News Rob Stevenson, Matt Signore launch new label ALTER, backed by Firebird Stevenson and Signore were both previously in leadership roles at 300 Entertainment Analysis News Sony generated $2.54bn from recorded music and publishing in calendar Q1 2025; Sony Music Group predicted to grow profit by ‘high single digits’ over next 12 months Both streaming and physical recorded music sales up single digits, as publishing division posts double-digit bounce in quarter News SoundCloud ‘fixes’ AI policy following backlash; CEO Eliah Seton says ‘AI should support artists, not replace them’ Policy change was quietly made to SoundCloud's terms and conditions in February 20241 2 … 1,150 Next
Analysis News Live Nation has already sold 100m tickets in 2025 so far – compared to 98m sold in all of 2019 Live Nation CFO Joe Berchtold talks about pricing, facing a potential economic slowdown, and fixing the company's public relations headaches
News Court should reject Drake’s ‘dangerous’ assumption that rap lyrics are factual in case against UMG, scholars argue Diss tracks 'are understood by audiences not to represent factual assertions about the opposing artist,' the scholars argue
News Reservoir subsidiary PopIndia strikes its first catalog deal with Musicraft Entertainment acquisition Deal arrives a month after the launch of Reservoir Media's newly established Mumbai subsidiary
News Producer Poo Bear launches TTIKR content monetization platform The mobile-first app allows musicians, filmmakers and multimedia artists to set their own prices for content and deal directly with their fans
News Universal Music expands iconic Blue Note and Deutsche Grammophon jazz and classical labels into China Labels launch in China as part of strategic expansion
News Rob Stevenson, Matt Signore launch new label ALTER, backed by Firebird Stevenson and Signore were both previously in leadership roles at 300 Entertainment
Analysis News Sony generated $2.54bn from recorded music and publishing in calendar Q1 2025; Sony Music Group predicted to grow profit by ‘high single digits’ over next 12 months Both streaming and physical recorded music sales up single digits, as publishing division posts double-digit bounce in quarter
News SoundCloud ‘fixes’ AI policy following backlash; CEO Eliah Seton says ‘AI should support artists, not replace them’ Policy change was quietly made to SoundCloud's terms and conditions in February 2024