Analysis News From TikTok’s music investment team to Sony’s reported Queen catalog acquisition… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
News $125m-backed Suno is being used to make racist and antisemitic music Suno users are making music with hateful messages, according to report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
News Sony Music inks partnership with India’s Maddock Films to produce soundtracks, pop singles The move comes amid remarkable growth in India's music market, and in the popularity of Indian music worldwide
News TikTok launches interactive Taylor Swift experience celebrating The Eras Tour Swift's in-app experience is the first and longest-running feature of its kind on TikTok
News 7 in 10 musical artists dissatisfied with streaming music payouts, survey finds The level of dissatisfaction is actually lower than it was a few years ago, an IAO survey found
Music Business Jobs Rostrum Records Rostrum Records – Digital Marketing Manager (US) The ideal candidate will be proactive, detail-oriented, and capable of working in a fast-paced, dynamic environmentJob type: Marketing/Digital MarketingLocation: Los Angeles, United StatesApplications for this position have now closed.
Analysis News TikTok is forming an investment team to acquire music content and companies ByteDance-owned platform is looking for execs with experience at investment banks, management consulting firms, or private equity firms
News FUGA inks global distro, marketing deals with France’s Record Makers and Belgium’s Potion Records The deals expand Downtown-owned FUGA's presence in the French and Belgian music industries.
Interviews ‘The industry has tremendous confidence in the talent that exists in this new era of South Asian music.’ MBW's Trailblazers series meets Abhi Kanakadandila, CEO of Los Angeles-based record label D36, which focuses on music from South Asia and its diaspora
News Beat marketplace BeatStars has paid out $325m to creators to date BeatStars reports that 10m creators use its platform in over 200 territories
News Scooter Braun retires from artist management after 23 years Braun announced his retirement from artist management in a statement published via Instagram on Monday, June 17.
News Latin music star Feid hit with copyright lawsuit over sample used in ‘Ferxxo 100’ Artist Sebastien Graux alleges he was “taken advantage of" by Feid's creative team
Analysis News Robert Kyncl turns up heat on PRO metadata matching, and other things we learned from his NMPA keynote in New York Warner boss was grilled by NMPA chief, David Israelite, at New York event this week
News US music publishing revenue jumped 10.7% to $6.2bn in 2023… outstripping recorded music’s growth in percentage terms The NMPA is focusing its energy on a battle against Spotify over royalty payments
Analysis How Sony’s $6bn+ M&A splurge has set the pace for music acquisitions over the past decade Rob Stringer claimed last month that Sony has outstripped spending at other major companies