News Warner Music Korea strikes strategic global partnership with indie label and management firm FeelGHood Music to represent Korean star BIBI BIBI has surpassed one billion streams in the past 12 months and has over 4 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
News Warner Music forms cross-border artist development platform GLIIDE with Thailand’s GMM Music The platform's first signing is SVRN, a performance-driven artist whose music video for his debut single "WHY" was released on Thursday.
News Meet 2026’s first breakout band, according to Luminate – a masked math rock duo called Angine de Poitrine, with weekly global on-demand streams up from under 2k to 11.2m in a single year Band went viral after a KEXP performance that has since accumulated more than 14m YouTube views.
News Managers of Grammy winners Justice and Gesaffelstein back music biz masters targeting emerging markets The program's strategic advisory board includes several senior executives from the French music business
Analysis Will this BTS tide finally lift all K-Pop boats? The following op/ed comes from author and music economist Will Page, and Jeongbeom ‘JB’ Kim, Chief Data Officer at the Korean-based KreatorsNetwork
Analysis News Tencent Music is quietly building a live music empire. Concerts could become the streaming giant’s ultimate differentiator in the age of AI. TME's non-subscription music services revenue, encompassing live concerts, advertising, and merchandise, jumped 28.0% YoY to RMB 1.94 billion (USD $282 million) in Q1
News TikTok now lets US users book hotels and attractions in-app with ‘TikTok GO’ TikTok has partnered with Booking.com, Expedia, Viator, Tiqets, Trip.com and GetYourGuide to launch TikTok GO.
Analysis News Listeners engage less deeply with music labeled as AI – even when it’s actually human-made, academic study finds The Wu and Holmes paper was based on two preregistered studies involving 399 US participants
News Jim Mahoney promoted to new Chief Membership Officer role at Merlin Mahoney’s promotion is accompanied by a series of senior Membership team promotions, including Bela Zecker, Joe Mercer Danher, and Ben Sperling.
News HYBE taps PLEDIS’ Jiwon No, SEVENTEEN producer Sung Soo Han for new girl group label ABD Jiwon No, who previously served as Head of Artist Planning at PLEDIS, was named President of the new label.
News India’s Zee Entertainment sues Reliance-Disney venture JioStar over alleged music copyright infringement (report) Reuters reported that Zee is seeking $3M in damages over the alleged unauthorized use of its music
News Michael Jackson biopic passes $500 million at global box office – as Sony Music reaps streaming windfall from catalog stake That makes it only the second music biopic ever to cross the $500 million threshold, after 2018's Bohemian Rhapsody.
Analysis News Warner Music Group generated $1.73B in calendar Q1 2026; subscription streaming revenues rose 12.7% YoY Warner Music Group published its calendar Q1 results today (May 7)
Analysis News Tencent Music took down over 250,000 songs and reviewed 600,000+ ‘high-risk’ copyright cases in 2025 amid ’emerging AI risks’ TME said it took down over 27,000 songs specifically involved in what it categorizes as "song theft," "song laundering," and "trend hijacking"
News Believe partners with Google to offer AI music creation tool Flow Music to its artists Google says that Flow Music can help artists with lyrics, experimenting with melodies or genres, and creating new instruments.