News Warner Records launches country music JV with Charly Salvatore’s Underscore Works JV to discover and develop new talent comes amid a banner year for the country music genre
Analysis Live Nation’s Michael Rapino lays out the argument for why concerts – not streaming – are the future of the music biz Rapino spoke at length at Liberty Media's investor conference in New York last week, breaking down the economics of his company's field
Analysis Believe has developed software that detects AI-made music with 98% accuracy. What might this mean for the future? Believe's "AI Radar" could help the streamer and music distributor establish itself as a "responsible" user of AI technology.
News BandLab rolls out distribution service in partnership with FUGA BandLab's music-making app, partly built on AI-driven tech, has attracted over 60m registered users to date
News Warner Music Group has signed up for Deezer’s ‘artist-centric’ royalties model in France News follow's Deezer's announcement of the new model with Universal Music Group in September
News Amazon’s music streaming division hit with round of layoffs Online retail and technology giant Amazon has reportedly started making layoffs in its music unit
News Elliott Peters promoted to General Counsel at EMPIRE Peters was previously EMPIRE’s Senior Vice President of Global Business
News The A&R Awards 2023: All The Winners From Lyor Cohen to Tim Blacksmith and Danny D – it was a big night in London
News Private equity firm STG closes acquisition of music tech firm Avid in $1.4bn cash deal Avid is the maker of Pro Tools and operates a DIY music distro service called AvidPlay
News Hipgnosis Songs Fund names Rob Naylor as new Chairman, Francis Keeling as non-executive director Former Round Hill board members jump over to Hipgnosis Songs Fund amid continuation turbulence
News Audius rolls out music marketplace, partners with DistroKid and Beatport Partnership will allow indie artists to upload their music to Audius
Analysis News Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) attracted 1,329% more streams than the original version of 1989 in the US last week What impact will 1989 (Taylor's Version) have on the weekly streams of the original version of the album in future weeks?
News Dua Lipa buys back rights to her songs from TaP Music Publishing 'We wish Dua all the best for the future,' said TaP in a statement
News Jungkook’s debut album ‘GOLDEN’ sold over 2m copies on its first day – a new record for a solo K-Pop act K-Pop star's album was released on Friday (November 3)
News Mariah Carey faces new copyright lawsuit over ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’ A musician called Andy Stone is suing Carey for allegedly copying elements of his song of the same name