News Brazilian authorities take down illegal file-sharing site FileWarez in win for record companies At its peak, the platform boasted over 118,000 registered users
News Grimes and CreateSafe partner with Slip.stream to make 200+ GrimesAI songs available to content creators Partnership will allow creators to incorporate GrimesAI songs in their videos, podcasts and livestreams
News Transgressive Publishing and Warner Chappell UK extend joint venture News arrives as Foals sign a new deal with Transgressive for their catalog, side projects and future recordings
News Juice WRLD estate, Dr. Luke sued over royalties for ‘Not Enough’ The lawsuit also names as a defendant music publisher Opus Music Group, which acquired a large stake in Juice WRLD’s catalog earlier this year.
News AI music startup Boomy partners with fraud detection company Beatdapp to ‘ensure the integrity’ of its platform Around 7% of tracks made on Boomy and then distributed to Spotify were deleted by Daniel Ek's company earlier this year
Analysis The music industry obsesses over the wrong kind of ‘discovery’. MBW founder, Tim Ingham, on the strange reasons we fall in love with artists, and how hard that is to measure
News HYBE-signed K-Pop stars Le Sserafim partner with games developer Blizzard Entertainment for Overwatch 2 collaboration The deal marks the game’s first musical artist collaboration
Uncategorized Analyst that double-downgraded Universal Music Group over AI, streaming concerns earlier this year just upgraded firm’s stock William Packer at BNP Paribas Exane has been impressed by UMG's Deezer deal and its work with AI companies
Analysis News Gap between music and video streaming prices widens as Netflix announces $3 hike to Premium subscriptions Netflix Premium will now cost $22.99 per month in the US, up $3 from $19.99, an increase of 15%
News Hipgnosis Songs Fund confirms that Merck Mercuriadis has an option to buy all of its rights if his investment advisory company is terminated Hipgnosis Songs Fund board announces Strategic Review of company, while confirming its investment advisor's key contractual clause
News Former Syco MD’s Funfair Records inks marketing and distribution deal with AWAL Funfair is backed by Coran Capshaw and James Sandom at Red Light Management
News After raising over $10m, Moises unveils AI-powered ‘Voice Studio’ that lets artists license and sell their own voices Company surpassed 30 million registered users on its platform earlier this year
News BMG expects to spend another $400m on catalog acquisitions this year – and just made its largest ever recorded music acquisition in France BMG has acquired the recorded music catalog of superstar French DJ and electronic music artist Martin Solveig
News Avex USA forms JV with Coup D’Etat Music to sign Nigerian Afrobeats star Victony Artist has also signed a record deal with Joie Manda’s Encore Recordings
Analysis News BMI will pay songwriters and publishers a smaller portion of its revenues as a for-profit company – while upping its own margin from 10% to 15% of collections. Will its members tolerate this change? New revelations from Michael O'Neill shows that BMI is planning to increase its retained revenues by a third