Music Business News: United States

Are you watching, Disney? Netflix’s ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ becomes most-viewed original animated film in platform’s history

The film, which premiered on June 20, racked up 106.1 million views in its first month

Sean Momberger: ‘If this happened when I was 21, who knows what would have happened? It probably would have been too much.’

Sean Momberger tells his side of the Not Like Us creation story and also discusses his collaboration with Mustard, the secret of successful sampling, and why AI is the future

News

Major labels and Merlin back interactive music TV channel ROXi’s debut on US broadcast TV

The service delivers 100 million licensed tracks from Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and Merlin to 31 US markets.

News

TikTok’s ‘Add to Music App’ feature has fuelled ‘billions’ of streams. Now it’s linked up with YouTube Music.

YouTube Music joins Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, Melon, Anghami and SoundCloud in TikTok's music-saving feature

News

Live Nation strikes $646 million deal to increase stake in Mexico’s OCESA

The deal is expected to close by the end of August, following approval at the upcoming CIE shareholder vote

Analysis

Learnings from Spotify’s Q2 2025 earnings call… including what the company (didn’t) say about that long-awaited ‘Music Pro’ tier

MBW's key takeaways from the green giant's latest grilling from investment analysts

News

Spotify sees $16 billion wiped off market cap; stock sinks 11.5% as ‘Social Charges’ drag down profit outlook

Spotify's stock price plunged 11.5% on Tuesday (July 29) largely as a result of missing profit guidance

News

Spotify subscriber base grew by 8m to 276m in Q2; company posted $460m operating profit

'Social Charges' take toll on operating income, but subscribers and MAUs both ahead of guidance in quarter