News Vevo DSCVR Artists To Watch 2024: Mae Stephens, ScarLip, Jazzy, Elmiene Part 2 of your introduction to the artists on Vevo's curated collection of artists on the verge of mainstream success
News Universal, Concord and ABKCO ask court for injunction to stop Anthropic’s AI from using their song lyrics The three publishers sued multi-billion-dollar-backed AI company Anthropic in October
News CreateSafe, the company behind Grimes AI, raises $4.6m in seed round Funding round was led by Polychain Capital
News Welcome to the future: AI-generated vocal clones of superstars now available on YouTube Shorts – thanks to Google’s ‘most advanced music generation model to date’ We all knew it was coming - now, suddenly, it's here.
Analysis Why I just resigned from my job in generative AI. Ed Newton-Rex has quit his role at Stability AI. In an exclusive op-ed, he shares why.
News KGV Kiran Kumar promoted to Managing Director of The Orchard in India Exec joined The Orchard in 2021
News Music collaboration platform Baton raises $4.2m to build ‘next-gen ecosystem for unreleased material’ “There are 100,000 songs released to streaming services every day, but most material is unreleased. We believe there's tremendous untapped potential here."
News Another suitor wants BMI – and has put a $2bn+ proposal on the table MBW sources tell us that a SPAC has made a significant proposition to BMI management
News YouTube is clamping down on AI-generated clones of superstars The video platform is also rolling out mandatory labeling of AI-generated or "synthetic" content.
News As YouTube launches new ‘Top Songs on Shorts’ chart, Lyor Cohen says ‘Shorts and music are symbiotic’ Platform's first-ever Shorts chart will showcase the most popular music on the short-form video platform in real time
News BandLab rolls out distribution service in partnership with FUGA BandLab's music-making app, partly built on AI-driven tech, has attracted over 60m registered users to date
News From Spotify’s 1,000 plays threshold to Taylor Swift’s blockbuster 1989 rerecording… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days
Interviews ‘When we show the artist something they don’t remember, and it all comes back to them. We get to witness that moment, that’s precious for us – and that’s also when we know the fans are going to lose their minds.’ Aviator talks 15 years of working with legends, taming the wild west and why the industry isn't prepared for a boomer-based digital tsunami
News Music funding platform beatBread launches advances of up to $3m for songwriters, hires BMG’s Spencer LeBoff LeBoff joins as General Manager of Publishing
News Elliott Peters promoted to General Counsel at EMPIRE Peters was previously EMPIRE’s Senior Vice President of Global Business