News Believe Digital expands into Norway with Indie Distribution partnership News comes less than a year after Believe took on $60m in investment
News Believe Digital strikes deal with Tencent in China Denis Ladegaillerie celebrates partnership with huge player
News Kobalt, Believe Digital execs elected onto AIM board Vincent Clery-Melin and Ben Rimmer join Cherry Red and Domino reps
News Wall Of Sound signs with Believe Digital in global deal New releases from Mark Jones label will be issued via Believe
News Spotify’s $250m backer leads $60m investment in Believe Digital John Rosenberg joins Believe board
Interviews After buying Tunecore, Believe Digital ready to challenge majors Denis Ladegaillerie says combined company will turn over $250m a year
News Believe Digital fully acquires rival Tunecore Both companies will continue to operate separately
News You won’t believe how much K-Pop stars are earning. No, really, you won’t. Girls Generation's income makes Premiership footballers look like paupers
News Ivan Chen named CEO of BandLab Technologies as co-founder Meng Ru Kuok transitions to Executive Chairman Kuok remains Group CEO of parent company Caldecott Music Group, where Chen also continues as Group President.
News US prosecutors want man who pocketed $8M using AI songs imprisoned for 4 years, saying he stole from ‘hard-working’ songwriters Prosecutors have put Smith's emails in front of Judge Koeltl, and say they show a man who knew from the start that his scheme was fraud.
News US appeals court rejects ‘fair use’ defense over AI training – as Thomson Reuters wins copyright case backed by RIAA and NMPA US federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that an AI company's copying of protected material to build its training data was not fair use.
News Qobuz starts tagging AI-generated music in its app – and says 60% of streams on AI tracks are fraudulent The tag appears at release level, flagging albums that include content Qobuz has identified as AI-generated.
Interviews Musixmatch: ‘Lyrics are becoming the LLM of the music industry’ Max Ciociola turned Musixmatch into the world’s largest lyrics company. Now, with backing from TPG – and having struck a deal with Suno for a copyright-detection tool called Sentinel – it’s on a path to becoming something much bigger…