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Universal Music Group sued over its Spotify equity ownership by artist in class action lawsuit

Black Sheep says it should have received equity from UMG's holding in Daniel Ek's company

U2, The Killers producer Steve Lillywhite sells music rights to Round Hill

Deal includes producer royalties and related rights

Key Songs in the Life Of… Stuart Camp

Ed Sheeran's manager picks the five songs that have meant the most to him in his life and career to date

Justin Bieber nears $200m deal to sell music rights to Hipgnosis’ Blackstone fund (report)

Bieber has released six albums, the most recent of which was Justice, via Def Jam / Universal Music in March 2021

Nearly $50m has now been withdrawn by artists and participants using Sony Music’s Cash Out and Real Time Advances features

Sony publishes 2022 recap for Artists Forward

4 things we learned from Merck Mercuriadis’ Q&A with Hipgnosis Songs Fund analysts

Hipgnosis founder discusses decay curves, ownership of catalogs and more in London

Round Hill: We’ve spent more than $200m across 40 acquisitions in 2022

Firm says 2022 was one of the most active acquisitive years in its 12-year history

Duetti, a startup led by Tidal’s former COO, plans to buy and monetize independent artists’ rights – report

Startup raised $7m in a seed funding round in July

Moonage Daydream, BMG and Live Nation’s David Bowie documentary, has grossed more than $12m this year at the box office

Critically acclaimed movie was released in September

From Anghami’s 200,000 AI-generated songs to the latest copyright infringement lawsuit against a US ISP… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

Our biggest stories of the week, brought to you in association with Centtrip

Classical music use on YouTube content soared 90% globally in 2022 — report

Epidemic Sound publishes inaugural Sound of the Internet Report

‘A future sync market powered by Web3 tools is an exciting prospect.’

This op/ed comes from Keatly Haldeman, CEO of Web3 music sync licensing platform Dequency and a former CEO at music publisher, record label and sync specialist Riptide Music Group

Allen Kovac and Better Noise pivoted to horror movies during the pandemic – and found a promotional goldmine for rock artists.

Over 150 million views of music videos with The Retaliators footage have taken place on YouTube alone

Arno Van Berkel appointed Managing Director at Fruits Music

He joins the company from his previous position of Managing Director at Warner Chappell Music, Benelux

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Karol G was Vevo’s most-viewed artist globally for the second consecutive year in 2022, with 2.76bn views

'Latin music continues to be a global sensation,' says Vevo