News Reservoir inks publishing deal with Armani White, rapper behind TikTok hit ‘BILLIE EILISH.’ Track has amassed more than 256m streams on Spotify. On TikTok, a video featuring the song amassed 40bn views
Interviews ‘The objective is not just to have a hit, it’s to make people feel less alone, more loved, more alive, more thankful.’ Josh Jenkins talks about co-writing two very different country mega-hits, the effect they have had on his career, gifts from God, TikTok and the importance of 'a slow, peaceful creative space'
News Tuned Global partners with Revelator to integrate NFTs into music streaming platforms Revelator will enable Tuned Global to offer its customers a white-label platform to mint, sell, distribute, report, and track music NFTs
News Thomas Coesfeld to become CEO of BMG effective July 1, 2023 Bertelsmann brings forward BMG leadership change. Hartwig Masuch to remain associated with Bertelsmann in an advisory capacity until 2026
News Tencent Music Entertainment had 94.4m paying music users at the end of Q1, up 17.7% YoY Tencent Music Entertainment Group has published its financial results for Q1 2023 (the three months to end of March)
Analysis Blog Why the power of AI may hold the key to distributing wealth throughout the music industry (Part 2) This MBW op/ed comes from Ran Geffen, founder of XR connect development agency OMR and CEO of Amusica Song Management in Israel.
News Google trained ‘experimental AI’ to generate high-fidelity songs from text prompts. Now it’s available to the public Model was trained on five million audio clips, amounting to 280,000 hours of music at 24 kHz
News Abbey Road Red tech startup XONE launches metaverse experience for British band easy life Easy life are signed to Universal Music Group's Island Records UK
News Music licensing startup Freshsound raises $2.2m in seed round Investment round was led by Zenith Venture Capital and Aligned
News Former Spotify exec David Ecker joins Exceleration Music as Label Development Manager Rachel Cunningham also appointed to lead Fan Engagement and Commerce at Exceleration
News Grammy-winning duo Stargate enter into creative joint venture with PULSE Music Group Stargate have produced or written for artists including Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, Rihanna, Selena Gomez and more
News Court dismisses shareholder lawsuit over Block’s purchase of TIDAL Tech company led by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey purchased Jay-Z's music streaming service TIDAL in 2021
News India’s Tips Music inks global deal with Sony Music Publishing SMP to administer and promote Tips Music's catalog of over 30,000 tracks and 5,500 albums
News Jody Gerson to receive ICMP Ralph Peer II Award for Outstanding Contribution to Global Music Publishing Jody Gerson, Chairman and CEO of Universal Music Publishing Group, to be presented with the award at Abbey Road Studios in London on July 10
News Insomniac Music partners with Slip.stream to provide ‘claim-free’ music to 200k+ creators, brands, businesses Slip.stream is backed by Sony Music Entertainment, Third Prime and Lightshed Ventures