News AI music that contains ‘no human authorship’ won’t be eligible for a Grammy Award Recording Academy updates its rules to include a section on AI for the 2024 Grammy Awards
News From the Taylor Swift catalog sale saga to music publishers’ $250m lawsuit against Twitter… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place
News Return of the SPAC? Entertainment and sports-focused ESH Acquisition Corp prices $100m IPO Blank check company may pursue "record labels, music and television streaming services, production companies and publishing houses."
News TikTok plans to invest ‘billions of dollars’ in Southeast Asia Company's CEO was speaking at a forum organized by TikTok in Singapore
News ASCAP unveils initiatives around AI to ‘help music creators navigate the future while protecting their work’ Organization has laid out a set of principles and advocacy positions with respect to AI
Analysis Reliving the Taylor Swift catalog sale saga (and following the money…) MBW uncovers exclusive facts about the buying and selling of the catalog of the world's biggest megastar
News Soundtrack Your Brand closes $15m funding round led by Matt Pincus’ MUSIC Soundtrack Your Brand was founded in 2013 by Ola Sars
News BMG acquires recordings catalog of iconic British rock group The Hollies Company says that it concluded more than 45 acquisitions over the course of 2022
News European Parliament working on music streaming market report Artists' remuneration from music streaming expected to “dominate” the study, reports Politico
Analysis Universal and SoundCloud are in talks over a new way to pay artists for streaming MBW Explains is a series of analytical features in which we explore the context behind major music industry talking points – and suggest what might happen next.
News Meta just released an AI music generator that was trained on 20,000 hours of licensed music Researchers at Facebook's parent company have developed an AI text-to-music generator called MusicGen
News Indie distributor Redeye and SESAC’s AudioSalad ink partnership for global digital delivery and technical services AudioSalad was acquired by SESAC Music Group in March of this year
News Firebird and D’Amelio family launch multi-million-dollar talent management venture (report) Firebird was founded by former Ticketmaster exec Nathan Hubbard and ex-KKR partner Nat Zilkha
News As sped-up remixes take over TikTok, Universal releases compilation album of sped-up hits ‘Sped Up Songs: Official Remixes from Viral Creators and Speed Radio' features remixes of tracks by Sam Smith, Lana Del Rey and more
News Nile Rodgers named as Apple Music’s Artist in Residence focusing on Spatial Audio Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio was rolled out on Apple Music in June 2021