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 Bipartisan TICKET Act introduced in House in push for transparency around ticket pricing Bill seeks to address issues such as hidden fees, on-sale transparency, buyer protections and more
News Spotify fined $5.4m by Swedish privacy regulator The case stems from a complaint filed in January 2019
News FTC asks US court to block Microsoft’s $69bn takeover of Activision Blizzard US Federal Trade Commission is asking a court to block the sale of video game giant Activision Blizzard to Microsoft
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 TuneCore partners with Grimes to distribute AI collaborations TuneCore artists can distribute collaborations created through Grimes' Elf.Tech AI to streaming platforms
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
Interviews ‘We are witnessing a resurgence of hip-hop across Africa.’ MBW’s World Leaders series interviews Wale Davies, Sony Music Publishing's Head of A&R for Africa
Analysis HYBE is raising a stack of capital to buy Latin Music companies. Who might it target? MBW picks out 10 companies that might just be on the minds of Scooter Braun and HYBE Chairman, Bang Si-Hyuk
News DistroKid faces potential class-action lawsuit over how it handles takedown requests Complaint argues that DistroKid breached its fiduciary duty
News CTM Outlander acquires catalog of Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Shane McAnally CTM Outlander disclosed its ambition in April 2021 to invest $1 billion in copyrights over the next five years
Analysis Why a $1 billion deal for Queen’s catalog is possible – and what CNN and The Daily Mail got drastically wrong A deeper dive into what could become the biggest music catalog deal of all time
Interviews This independent artist has over a billion streams on Spotify. 10 years ago, a record label told him his music was ‘unreleasable’. Bruno Major joins the Music Business Worldwide Podcast