News Live music discovery platform Bandsintown reaches 100m registered users The company says it now has a network of over 700,000 registered artists and 65,000 venues and promoters.
News Armada Music launches NBT Records in partnership with Simon Dunmore The imprint will operate from Armada’s brand-new creative hub in London
Interviews Key Songs In The Life Of… Tom Corson The Warner Records Co-Chairman and COO picks the 10 tracks that have sign-posted his journey to date
News Suno is generating more than $100M in annual revenue – and is in talks to raise more money at a $2B valuation The company is currently generating more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue, Bloomberg said, citing sources.
News TikTok’s SoundOn touts success of viral hit ‘NOW OR NEVER’ by Tkandz and CXSPER Three years after TikTok launched SoundOn, the music distribution service is giving record companies and music distributors a run for their money
News Beatport launches ticketing platform exclusively for dance music events Beatport Tickets will allow labels, promoters, and venues in the UK and European Union to sell tickets through Beatportal.
Interviews Limbo was one of the first LATAM distro companies to sign a deal with iTunes. Now it’s built a tool that lets labels have ‘conversations’ with their streaming data using AI chatbots MBW meets Fer Isella, co-founder and CEO of limbo/ music, a "boutique" B2B distribution technology company
Interviews Key Songs In The Life Of… Jack Antonoff The multi-Grammy-winning hitmaker unveils his personal autobiography in song
News Major music publishers ink AI licensing deals with lyrics and music data company Musixmatch Musixmatch says it will use the publishers' catalogs to build 'non-generative' AI tools
News Australia and New Zealand have seen a 31% collapse in streams of local music, APRA AMCOS says Rights management org APRA AMCOS blames the problem on algorithms that 'favor scale and international repertoire'
News Too Lost makes ‘seven-figure’ investment in catalog acquisition startup AntiFragile Equity Partners The deal combines Too Lost's distribution infrastructure with AntiFragile's catalog acquisition model.
News Disney lands Taylor Swift’s ‘The Eras Tour’ content with 6-episode docuseries and concert film Both will premiere on December 12, with the docuseries featuring appearances from Gracie Abrams, Sabrina Carpenter, Ed Sheeran and Florence Welch.
News Sir Lucian Grainge on UMG’s AI policy: ‘We will NOT license AI models that use an artist’s voice without their consent.’ Universal Music Group boss says company is 'actively engaged' with nearly a dozen AI companies on new products
Analysis Bootleg vinyl from Russia & China… and 3 other things you might have missed from the RIAA’s latest piracy revelations US recorded music revenues are still around $9 billion per year lower than they were before the age of digital piracy arrived, the RIAA says
News Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ shatters US sales records, dominates singles chart The record sold over 3.4 million copies in its first week in the US alone, with final consumption figures at 4.002 million equivalent album units, Billboard reports