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Having turned over $27m in 2018, Epidemic Sound is roasted by songwriter group for buy-out deals

Epidemic responds by suggesting traditional industry is bothered by its "disruptive" model

The major labels are starting to find life tougher in Sweden. Is this a wake-up call for the future?

Independent artists continue to rise – as first-party playlists take control in crucial market

Epidemic Sound raises $20m, announces expansion into South Korea

Company to launch in South Korea via a partnership with DS Asset Management

The music industry is tackling streaming fraud with a pointless ‘Code’. It won’t work… but these ideas might.

Penalties for artists, penalties for staff, more funding – why wasn't any of this in the industry's own policies?

The music industry just failed to fix streaming fraud with a toothless ‘Code of Conduct’

The industry has come together to pledge... nothing new, really

Spotify: We don’t expect major labels to ‘hand us an additional pile of gross margin’

CFO Barry McCarthy speaks frankly on subject of re-negotiations with the labels

Spotify is on a collision course with the major record companies. Here’s why.

Spotify has a number of tricky issues to face down during its 2019 negotiations with the biggest labels

Spotify loses global markets boss to EQT… which then buys 40% stake in Epidemic Sound

... as Spotify investor Creandum increases stake in production music company

Welcome to the future: Spotify poaches AI music expert from Sony

Yeah. About those 'fake' artists. You ain't see nothing yet.

Spotify is making its own records… and putting them on playlists

'Chill' playlists being infiltrated by Spotify-owned recordings, MBW learns

Meta scraps AI Muse Image feature that scraped Instagram accounts, following CAA backlash

Under the opt-out design, the public Instagram account of any adult artist could be referenced by other users to generate AI images unless the artist switched the feature off

Spotify slashes streams of hit song after suspicious activity on prediction market Kalshi

Kalshi said in April that trading on the its music 'contracts' had already topped USD $400 million in 2026

A counterfeit merch crackdown, facial recognition at K-pop concerts, and 3 other things we learned from HYBE’s 2025 sustainability report

The 121-page document sets out a number of disclosures, from anti-counterfeiting measures to the company's use of generative AI and expansion into physical retail.

US senators revive bill that would force AI-generated audio, video and images to carry labels

Songwriters and SAG-AFTRA line up behind revived US bill to label AI-generated audio, video and images

Google says AI training is fair use and copyright should be policed on outputs, not inputs

The tech giant has published a new policy paper outlining the company's preferred approach to AI regulation