Analysis News BTS renew contracts with K-pop giant HYBE HYBE revealed the news in a regulatory filing on Wednesday (September 20)
Interviews Lucas Keller on ambition, songwriters, BMI – and what he’d do if he ran a major record company As Milk & Honey turns 10 years old, company founder Lucas Keller joins MBW's World's Greatest Managers series. He has some views...
News TikTok says it’s working on automatic AI content detection, as it rolls out new ‘AI-generated’ label for creators TikTok rolls out new tool that will enable creators to label AI-generated content that they upload to the social media platform
Analysis News Recorded music industry revenues hit $8.4bn in the US in H1 – but paid streaming account growth slowed again While growth in new subscriptions was slower in H1 2023 versus H1 2022, the subscription accounts that were already active in H1 2023 were paying more
News Warner Music Group launches new creative hub in Berlin Opening ceremony on Thursday (September 14) drew over 700 guests including artists, songwriters, and WMG execs
Interviews Denis Ladegaillerie on AI, streaming royalty models, Believe’s game plan… and more The Believe founder and CEO joins MBW's Tim Ingham on the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast
Interviews How Mewo.io plans to ‘revolutionize’ the sync music sourcing process using its AI-powered music search platform France headquartered Mewo is a catalog management platform with an AI-assisted search engine
Analysis Blog In defence of white noise. The following op-ed comes from long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde
Analysis Universal and Deezer’s ‘artist-centric’ model isn’t shocking. It emulates tech’s most successful titans. Yes, we're talking about it again. Why? Not enough people have connected the dots to Silicon Valley.
News JKBX goes live, featuring listings to reserve shares in royalties from hits by Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran and more superstars Song royalties trading platform JKBX is officially live
News DistroKid acquires website hosting and e-commerce company Bandzoogle Bandzoogle offers various e-commerce tools allowing musicians to market and sell products directly to their fanbases
News Believe says it’s distributed €700 million in royalties in APAC region, as it marks 10th anniversary of expansion into Asia Believe's strategy is to focus on developing local artists in China, India and Southeast Asia.
News TikTok fires back at suggestion it’s hurting paid-for music streaming growth in France: ‘There is no evidence to suggest that TikTok is diverting music fans away from subscription streaming services.’ SNEP targeted short-form video services in comments made last week about France's subscription streaming growth
Analysis OpenAI’s response to Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit shows music rightsholders could be in for a tough fight over copyright and AI OpenAI says a lawsuit over its use of copyrighted materials in training AI algorithms is based on an 'erroneous' understanding of copyright law
News From Concord’s $468.8m Round Hill deal to Universal and Deezer’s new artist-centric model… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days