Interviews Key Songs In The Life Of… Justin Tranter The hit songwriter selects the tracks that have had the biggest influence on their life and career to date
News AI music app Boomy has created 14.4m tracks to date. Spotify just deleted a bunch of its uploads after detecting ‘stream manipulation’. Today's news comes a week after Daniel Ek, founder and CEO of Spotify, announced to investors that his company was working with major record companies to quell the threat posed by AI music
Interviews ‘The biggest question we face today is, how do we break Japanese artists internationally?’ In this feature, we speak to Kaz Kobayashi, President & CEO, Warner Music Japan and Kazuhiro Shimada, COO, Warner Music Japan.
News Duetti, a music financing platform led by ex-TIDAL and Apple Music execs, raises $32m from investors including Roc Nation Startup was founded by former TIDAL COO Lior Tibon and former Apple Music Business Development executive, Christopher Nolte
Analysis Ad-supported music streaming is broken. Resso, Deezer, and Gaana have all cut their free tiers in the past year. Will more services follow?
News TikTok sister music app Resso shuts down free tier, goes subscription-only Today's news comes eight months after another major music streaming service in India, Gaana, shut down its free tier
News From Universal’s AI fightback to Primary Wave’s $100m deal in India… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place
Analysis News Max Lousada on Warner’s dance strategy, A&R, AI and the ‘art’ of what’s possible with technology Max Lousada, CEO of Recorded Music at Warner Music Group, gave a keynote interview at IMS in Ibiza this week
News With 2bn plays on YouTube per day, Epidemic Sound swung to positive EBITDA in 2022 Epidemic's solid gain in net sales in 2022 was made on “significantly stronger streaming revenues,” the company said in a statement
News Sony Music Entertainment UK relaunches Epic Records in the UK, led by Sarah Lockhart Epic Records UK will operate alongside other Sony Music labels in the UK including RCA, Columbia, and Ministry of Sound
News The Gap Band heirs drop lawsuit against BMG over ‘Uptown Funk’ royalties The case was dismissed "without prejudice" in Manhattan Federal court on April 18
Analysis Bill Ackman thinks there’s a lot of growth ahead for Universal Music Group. These analysts agree. Ahead of Universal's Q1 results tomorrow, a number of Wall Street watchers are reiterating their faith in music's biggest company
Analysis News Spotify confirms it’s working with labels to quell copyright threat from AI music Spotify is taking concerns about the impact of AI-generated music on entertainment rightsholders seriously, says Daniel Ek
Analysis Deezer is ‘supportive’ of helping labels battle deluge of AI music… while also making its own AI music for its ‘Zen by Deezer’ app Jeronimo Folgueira, CEO of France-based Deezer, discusses the music industry's biggest hot topic on call with analysts
News 50% of vinyl buyers in the US don’t own a record player, data shows Luminate survey reveals surprising stat about what happens to format after it's purchased in world's biggest music market