News ASCAP unveils initiatives around AI to ‘help music creators navigate the future while protecting their work’ Organization has laid out a set of principles and advocacy positions with respect to AI
News UnitedMasters expands its reach into Africa, partners with Nigerian producer Sarz to ’empower the next generation of African talent’ Partnership will provide access to 'brand and sync opportunities, and capital' for Sarz' 1789 imprint to develop talent from Africa
News Warner Music Group ventures into games publishing with ‘Invector: Rhythm Galaxy’ WMG parters with game studio, Hello There Games
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 Nile Rodgers named as Apple Music’s Artist in Residence focusing on Spatial Audio Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio was rolled out on Apple Music in June 2021
Analysis News From Deezer’s AI music strategy, to who HYBE might try to buy in Latin Music… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place
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 Warner Music Group strikes deal with kids audio platform Yoto Warner to bring select artists to kids' music player Yoto
News Why has the Musicians’ Union in the UK declined a pay rise for its session musician members? The MU has been negotiating the rate of pay for session musicians in the UK
News Jeff Skaggs appointed Head of Milk & Honey Nashville Skaggs previously served as VP of Creative at Creative Nation
News Universal Music Group opens $800m bond offering Proceeds will be used for refinancing of existing debt and paying transaction fees and expenses
News Luke Combs named top artist-songwriter in Q1 2023, on the NMPA Gold & Platinum Program (based on RIAA certifications) Ray Fulcher claimed the title of the top non-performing songwriter
Interviews News As AI-made music explodes, Deezer lays out strategy to identify AI tracks and ‘weed out illegal and fraudulent content’ on its platform Deezer is building a set of tools to detect AI-generated content on its platform
News Warner’s ADA Worldwide strikes global distribution deal with Rostrum Records ADA to be responsible for worldwide distribution services for Rostrum’s entire label catalog and new releases
News Wise Music Group and Faber Music strike global deal for the Edition Peters printed music business Wise Music will continue to own the Edition Peters rights business