News Daniel Ek takes Spotify’s battle with Apple to Washington Ek is in Washington, DC, this week, to lobby lawmakers to pass a law that would prevent Apple from engaging in 'anti-steering' behavior.
Interviews Shunsuke Muramatsu, CEO of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan), on the CD’s continued dominance in the market, and how anime acts as a gateway to Japanese music worldwide MBW's World Leaders series speaks to Shunsuke Muramatsu, CEO of Sony Music Entertainment Japan
Analysis Does YouTube owe Bad Bunny an explanation – or a bigger check? Bill Werde juxtaposes record numbers for Latin music in the US with YouTube's historical payouts to music rightsholders
News Thomas Sharp Maxwell promoted to General Manager USA at IDOL, as firm plots North American expansion Promotion follows the hire of Allison Kleshefsky, its New York-based DSP Editorial & Partnerships Lead last year
News Hipgnosis acquires writer’s share of performance income from Grammy-winning songwriter David Foster David Foster has won 16 Grammy Awards
News AI ‘fake Drake’ track deleted on Spotify, YouTube, TikTok after Universal Music Group copyright claim The holding page of ghostwriter's now-defunct YouTube upload reads: This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Universal Music Group.
News Utopia Music slashes 15% of global workforce; over 300 staff laid off at company in past 6 months MBW recently broke the news that Utopia had sold music publishing platform Sentric to Believe just a year after Utopia itself acquired the firm
News Apple Music, Deezer, TIDAL pull down viral AI ‘fake Drake and The Weeknd’ track (update) Ghostwriter's heart on my sleeve has now surpassed 625,000 plays on Spotify
News HYBE’s Weverse helped it generate over $50m from fan club activities last year. Now SM Entertainment artists are joining the superfan platform Platform brings together artist-related content such as music videos, teasers, movies and live streams
News Voice AI firm SoundHound secures $100m in strategic financing AI-powered speech and music recognition company secures $100m in strategic financing from Atlas Credit Partners
News Google must go to trial in Sonos patent infringement case, says judge Sonos sued Google for patent infringement in 2020
News TV-based music streaming service Roxi raises $8.7m, plans expansion into the US Company says it offers 90m music videos and 400,000 karaoke tracks
News Spotify to shutter music trivia game Heardle – less than a year after acquiring it Heardle lets players guess a song based on its opening notes
Interviews How independent South African music company The T Effect plans to ‘create a new wave of African Global Superstars’ The T Effect's co-founders Tshiamo Letshwene and Nhlanhla ‘Nivo’ Ndimande tell us about the company's global ambitions
News Fitness app Strava integrates Spotify to let users stream songs, podcasts while tracking workouts Strava's users can now play, pause, resume, skip, and browse Spotify from within its app