News Suicideboys sued in the UK by Rough Trade and Beggars Music over alleged unauthorized sample (report) The song in question has amassed over 115 million Spotify streams.
Analysis News Sir Lucian Grainge talks AI strategy, Downtown, D2C, superfans, and more on UMG’s latest earnings call MBW listened in to UMG's latest earnings call. Here's what we learned.
News Sony sued by Lit, the band behind pop-punk hit ‘My Own Worst Enemy,’ over alleged unpaid streaming royalties The group claims Sony has been using the wrong royalty formula for their streams.
News Robert Kyncl tells WMG shareholders: AI is music’s next growth engine, not its downfall Warner boss also signals major pricing opportunity ahead for rightsholders on DSPs
News Guji Lorenzana promoted to Director, A&R and Client Development, APAC, at Symphonic Distribution Symphonic promotes Guji Lorenzana, expands APAC team, and announces new Asia signings
Analysis An open letter to Suno’s Mikey Shulman. MBW founder, Tim Ingham, on Suno, streaming fraud statistics, Fortnite, funerals, red lights, and sad eyes.
Interviews How Jeff Waye and Patrick Curley built Third Side Music into an indie publishing powerhouse with USD $25M in annual revenues MBW's Trailblazers meets Jeff Waye, Co-Founder and COO, and Patrick Curley, Co-Founder, President and CEO, of independent publisher Third Side Music
News Suno: We’ve hit 2M paid subscribers and $300M annual revenue CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman shared the figures this week, two years after the platform's launch
Analysis Rise of the Music-Making Machines Darius Van Arman explores the threat of AI to the music-making community and how independents can best position themselves against the inevitable and rising tide of AI…
News Artist representatives launch ‘Say No To Suno’ campaign: ‘AI slop dilutes the royalty pools of legitimate artists from whose music this slop is derived.’ Open letter slams AI music generator
News Suno hires ex-Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota as Chief Commercial Officer Sirota will report directly to CEO Mikey Shulman.
News AI remix startup Hook secures $10m in Series A led by Khosla Ventures The startup promoted Simmi Singh to Chief Operating Officer & Chief Product Officer.
News Deezer launches ‘Flow Tuner’ to give users more control over algorithmic playlists Flow Tuner adjusts recommendations in real time instead of relying on likes, dislikes or skips.
News Apple Music’s iOS 26.4 beta introduces AI-powered playlist tool The feature, called Playlist Playground, appeared in the beta version of iOS 26.4 released to developers on Monday.
News TikTok tests letting users stream full songs through Apple Music without leaving the app The feature requires an active Apple Music subscription to access full songs through TikTok, according to 9to5Mac.