News BMG acquires Paul Simon royalty streams from Simon & Garfunkel recordings in ‘significant transaction’ Deal does not cover Simon's work as a solo artist
News AI music platform that streams fake Drake tracks raises $20m Platform features AI versions of many popular artists
Analysis Hyper space: when A&R overreaches itself The following op/ed comes from long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde
News Dr Jan Fischer appointed CEO of Warner’s EMP Merchandising Fischer’s appointment as CEO follows the departure of his predecessor, Ernst Trapp, last month
News TikTok plans to invest ‘billions of dollars’ in Southeast Asia Company's CEO was speaking at a forum organized by TikTok in Singapore
Analysis What does the EU’s new AI Act mean for tech startups and rightsholders? Rightsholders such as publishers will likely find something to like - and tech companies may find something to dislike - in the EU's AI Act
News Hasbro secures exclusive global admin deal with Sony Music Publishing for Peppa Pig, Transformers and more Partnership will see Sony Music Publishing representing Hasbro's global catalog
News TikTok’s rise as a news platform challenges journalists’ influence, Reuters Institute study finds Study examined global news consumption trends
Analysis Reliving the Taylor Swift catalog sale saga (and following the money…) MBW uncovers exclusive facts about the buying and selling of the catalog of the world's biggest megastar
News Soundtrack Your Brand closes $15m funding round led by Matt Pincus’ MUSIC Soundtrack Your Brand was founded in 2013 by Ola Sars
News UnitedMasters expands its reach into Africa, partners with Nigerian producer Sarz to ’empower the next generation of African talent’ Partnership will provide access to 'brand and sync opportunities, and capital' for Sarz' 1789 imprint to develop talent from Africa
News Meta just released an AI music generator that was trained on 20,000 hours of licensed music Researchers at Facebook's parent company have developed an AI text-to-music generator called MusicGen
Analysis HYBE is raising a stack of capital to buy Latin Music companies. Who might it target? MBW picks out 10 companies that might just be on the minds of Scooter Braun and HYBE Chairman, Bang Si-Hyuk
News Evan Bogart’s Seeker Music acquires publishing catalog of UK production duo Future Cut Duo worked on production and songwriting for Lily Allen's multi-platinum debut album, Alright, Still
Analysis Why a $1 billion deal for Queen’s catalog is possible – and what CNN and The Daily Mail got drastically wrong A deeper dive into what could become the biggest music catalog deal of all time