Music Business News: United States

Music publishing brings in $11.1bn annually across 16 major markets, first-ever ICMP survey finds

ICMP hopes snapshot of publishing revenue across major markets will be a valuable tool for understanding the nature of the business

‘A&R is based on three things: trust, relationship and accountability.’

After more than two decades with the majors, Amanda Hill now heads up Runner Music, the publishing company founded in 2023 by Ryan Tedder, Ron Laffitte and Andrew Sparkler. Here she discusses her career to date, artist development and archaic business models

Miley Cyrus taps TikTok for ‘Something Beautiful’ album launch campaign

Campaign features exclusive in-app experience and private listening party.

Labels in licensing talks with AI music generators Suno and Udio (report)

Reported talks arrive a year after the majors sued Suno and Udio for copyright infringement

From Taylor Swift’s masters victory to HYBE’s eventful week… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days

Jazmyn Griffin and Tessie Lammle join Wasserman Music to expand Hip-Hop/R&B division

The two new hires will work on Hip-Hop/R&B projects across Wasserman's Global Festivals and artist representation teams.

Round Hill, with $1.1bn music portfolio, strikes flurry of catalog acquisitions

Round Hill Music's portfolio features 200,000 copyrights

Grammy winner Rodney ‘Darkchild’ Jerkins strikes music rights deal with HarbourView

HarbourView said the deal was facilitated by Swedish music technology company Chapter Two