News Revenues at UK licensing org, PPL, hit record high in 2022, up 7.8% to £272.6m It was the highest level of revenue in the company’s 89-year history
Interviews Austin Daboh on music, tech, AI, and the future of artist marketing The Atlantic Records UK EVP joins the Music Business Worldwide podcast
News From Google’s AI music generator to Robert Kyncl on music streaming’s payout and pricing models… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place
Analysis Blog Why the power of AI may hold the key to distributing wealth throughout the music industry (Part 2) This MBW op/ed comes from Ran Geffen, founder of XR connect development agency OMR and CEO of Amusica Song Management in Israel.
News Google trained ‘experimental AI’ to generate high-fidelity songs from text prompts. Now it’s available to the public Model was trained on five million audio clips, amounting to 280,000 hours of music at 24 kHz
News Abbey Road Red tech startup XONE launches metaverse experience for British band easy life Easy life are signed to Universal Music Group's Island Records UK
News Warner Chappell Music UK signs rising producer, DJ and songwriter Nia Archives to global publishing deal Her track Forbidden Feelingz has racked up more than 19 million streams on Spotify
News Grammy-winning duo Stargate enter into creative joint venture with PULSE Music Group Stargate have produced or written for artists including Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, Rihanna, Selena Gomez and more
Analysis Who owns Spotify today? MBW digs through SEC filings to discover who ultimately controls music subscription streaming's dominant player
News ‘An Ed Sheeran stream is not worth the same as a stream of rain falling on a roof’: Robert Kyncl says music streaming payout and pricing models must, and will, change Warner Music Group boss presses his message, says WMG's licensing agreements with Spotify et al will not be the same in future
News Mixtape site Spinrilla ordered to shut down, pay $50 million to major labels in copyright infringement case The ruling prohibits all employees of Spinrilla, as well as people who worked “in active concert or participation” with Spinrilla, from ever operating a service “that is substantively similar to the Spinrilla Service”
News Lauren Wirtzer-Seawood, SoundCloud’s Chief Content and Marketing Officer, exits company Wirtzer-Seawood joined SoundCloud in June 2021, hired by then-CEO, Michael Weismann
News SoundCloud’s new ‘Fans’ tool lets artists DM their superfans Fans is currently in beta with over 10,000 artists, including Warner Music Group artists
Interviews BMG’s Hartwig Masuch and Thomas Coesfeld on hits, efficiency – and spending $400m on catalog acquisitions in 2022 BMG's current CEO and its incoming CEO both sit down with MBW to discuss the company's ambitions
News From Ed Sheeran’s court victory to Spotify deleting Boomy uploads… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place