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
Interviews This independent artist has over a billion streams on Spotify. 10 years ago, a record label told him his music was ‘unreleasable’. Bruno Major joins the Music Business Worldwide Podcast
News EU calls on tech giants to label AI-generated content The EU is asking tech giants like Google, Meta, TikTok and Microsoft to start labeling AI-generated content on its services
Interviews News As AI-made music explodes, Deezer lays out strategy to identify AI tracks and ‘weed out illegal and fraudulent content’ on its platform Deezer is building a set of tools to detect AI-generated content on its platform
Analysis Why the music business should be watching Japan’s AI developments very closely MBW Reacts to recent news about AI training in Japan
Analysis News From Queen’s $1bn catalog to HYBE raising $380m for acquisitions in the US… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place
News UK government forms creator ‘remuneration working group’, unveils music streaming metadata agreement Initiatives aim to improve pay for musicians and enhance the accuracy and transparency of metadata in the streaming industry