News BTS label BigHit Music asks US court to unmask X user who leaked ‘ARIRANG’ before release The HYBE-owned label is targeting an X account that allegedly distributed unreleased songs and other album assets before ARIRANG dropped.
News HYBE moves to crack down on bootleg BTS merch ahead of US tour dates Legal filing arrives ahead of BTS's performances at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa in April
News Max Lousada and Julie Greenwald are in business. Welcome to 26.2 — in partnership with Sony Music Ex-Warner veterans take the wraps off 26.2 – a record label with global ambitions
News Warner Music’s Spinnin’ Records launches new label in Germany New label 'creates opportunities for artists across Germany, Switzerland, and Austria (GSA)'
News From Pershing Square’s $64 billion bid for UMG to Wireless Festival’s Kanye West cancellation… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up The biggest headlines from the past seven days...
News TuneCore partners with RoyFi to offer royalty advances to indie artists Artists can secure direct cash advances without giving up equity or transferring ownership of copyrights.
News Sony Music and UMG form NINE BY NINE music festivals joint venture in Japan NINE BY NINE will engage in planning and production of music festivals in Asia, and supporting Japanese artists seeking to expand internationally.
News Secretly Distribution acquires music data and analytics firms Entertainment Intelligence and Babel Ops Babel Ops was founded in 2020 by Erik Gilbert and Greg Delaney, who previously co-founded Entertainment Intelligence in 2014.
News Bill Ackman confident he’ll win over UMG shareholders to $64 billion bid, says Bolloré response was ‘music to my ears’ The transaction requires the support of UMG's board and a two-thirds vote of shareholders who attend a meeting called for the purpose
News Wireless Festival cancelled after UK government blocks Kanye West from entering Britain Home Office says rapper's presence "would not be conducive to the public good"
News Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square bids to buy Universal Music Group in $64 billion deal "UMG's stock price has languished due to a combination of issues that are unrelated to the performance of its music business and importantly, all of them can be addressed with this transaction," says Ackman
News Dialled In Records launches in London focused on South Asian music in partnership with The Collective, part of Universal Music UK’s Island-EMI Dialled In Records launches with two acts: Pakistan-born producer and DJ Ahadadream, and Excise Dept, an India-based multidisciplinary collective.
News Meta touts Instagram as music superfan hub in new Luminate study Musicians who participate in Instagram's Activation program see their streaming numbers jump by roughly 10% in the week an activation launches.
News Brian Miller appointed Chief Business Officer at TuneCore Miller has served as Chief Revenue Officer at TuneCore for the last two years
News TikTok’s distro service SoundOn cracks down on manipulated audio via ACRCloud partnership to intercept unauthorized tracks ACRCloud’s Derivative Works Detection service uses audio fingerprinting to identify modified works