Music Business News: United States
News Blackstone had reportedly been slated to take a minority stake in the platform’s US business alongside other consortium members. News The AIXPERT project will develop AI systems that can identify when and how AI-generated music incorporates elements from human-made works. Analysis News The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days News Version 4.5+ release introduces three new features that Suno calls 'first-of-their-kind professional audio production tools' News At Meta, 'Mark Zuckerberg himself made the call' to pirate vast amounts of copyrighted material News The app is working to better integrate with the music community and formalize its relationship with music companies Interviews Chris Woltman on the huge and sustained success of Twenty One Pilots, why record labels still matter, the rock revival, streaming economics and AI Analysis This article originally appeared in Tim Ingham’s latest MBW+ Review email, issued exclusively to MBW+ subscribers.