News All 58 Taylor Swift music videos land on Spotify, seven months after ‘Opalite’ skipped YouTube for two days The catalog runs from "Tim McGraw," released in 2006, to "I Knew It, I Knew You," released in June.
News Believe France launches ALL IN, a new pop entity uniting naïve, Animal63, All Night Long, and Jo&Co ALL IN is led by Henri Jamet, Managing Director of Believe France, and Sébastien Saussez, who will head the new entity.
News Cyril Vetter asks US Supreme Court to reject challenge by majors and BMG to ruling that lets songwriters reclaim copyrights worldwide Songwriter's lawyers filed a brief in opposition on Monday, September 14
News Spotify rolls out global toggle that lets users keep kids and family music out of recommendations and Wrapped The exclusion applies retroactively, so kids and family music users have already streamed will no longer count toward their Wrapped top song or artist.
News Spotify’s former Head of Innovation raises $5.5m pre-seed for music app startup; Dawn Ostroff among the backers The company, which builds apps that let people take apart and rebuild recorded music, was founded in 2024, the same year Zonoozy left Spotify.
News In addition to its vinyl move, now Suno is readying a merch store. Suno is using Fourthwall for the service, which runs stores for brands including New York Magazine, Vox, and Eater
News DistroKid, distributing ‘roughly 40%’ of all new music, hasn’t yet signed IFPI’s new anti-fraud standards… unlike CD Baby. DistroKid has not yet signed up, despite its claim to distribute "roughly 40%" of "all new music in the world" for over 4 million artists.
News [PIAS] relaunches Source – the Anglo-French label behind Air, Phoenix, and Kings of Convenience Ifulki, Disgusting Sisters, Epal, and HINA are the relaunched label's first signings.
Analysis AI Will Test Music’s Infrastructure, Not Just Its Creativity The following MBW op/ed comes from Jorge Brea, CEO of Symphonic
News Judge throws out copyright claims in Wixen’s $102M lawsuit against Meta A judge ruled that Wixen has not shown it holds the rights that would let it sue over the 681 works it says Meta used without a license.
Analysis Time to go private? On Warner, Universal, and dissatisfaction with public market valuations. The latest 'Tim's Take' from Music Business Worldwide founder, Tim Ingham
News HarbourView Equity Partners appoints Patrick Morin Managing Director of Business Development Morin joins HarbourView as the firm expands its investment platform and music catalog portfolio.
News The Weeknd’s After Hours Til Dawn tour grossed $345m across 2026 Europe and UK leg, drawing over 2.3m fans across 11 countries The leg drew more than 2.3 million fans across 11 countries, closing with back-to-back shows at Estádio do Restelo in Lisbon on Sunday (September 6).
News Warner Chappell strikes global deal with France’s Kidding Aside – as electronic music indie launches publishing venture with Nicolas Klersy as Partner Warner Chappell described Kidding Aside as "one of France's most influential independent electronic music companies."
News Samantha Juneman named Head of Music at Mattel, arriving from Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists Group Juneman will lead Mattel's effort to "build music into a more strategic franchise and commercial platform."