Interviews Believe’s Chris Meehan on growing Sentric into a global platform, servicing indie songwriters, and why publishing once ‘felt like a dark art’ MBW's World Leaders series meets Chris Meehan, CEO of Publishing at Believe
News UMG’s latest major AI partnership arrives via tech giant NVIDIA, with promise of ‘antidote to generic AI slop’ Collaboration aims 'to pioneer responsible AI for music discovery, creation, and engagement'
News Idris Elba, Cynthia Erivo, Key Production’s Karen Emanuel and more amongst those recognized in UK New Year’s Honours list Max Richter and Ellie Goulding also awarded in latest New Year's Honours list
News PRS for Music and IPRS strike licensing deal for Apple Fitness+ India launch IPRS will license the service in India while PRS for Music will handle processing, matching reported music usage with registered works and distributing royalties.
News TikTok signs deal with Oracle consortium for US business The ByteDance-owned platform has signed a joint venture agreement with Oracle, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi's MGX that is set to finalize on December 22.
Interviews ‘You need to leave your safeguards and walk into the fire.’ MBW’s World’s Greatest Songwriters series meets legendary composer A.R. Rahman
News PPL’s royalty distributions jump 19.9% to $72.8M in final quarter of 2025 The recorded music royalties collection society says it's seeing strong collections coming from abroad
News Indie music publishers saw revenues grow 5.1% to $2.9bn in 2024: IMPF The IMPF is raising the alarm about the risk of AI to songwriters' and music publishers' income
News AEG reports 19% jump in shows at London’s O2 Arena to record 239 in 2025; ticket sales up 11.4% The venue set a new attendance record when Radiohead drew 22,355 fans during a four-night run
News Vevo DSCVR Artists To Watch 2026: Royel Otis, SAILORR, Sayf, Aaron Rowe Four more new names from Vevo’s annual DSCVR Artists to Watch list
News Saregama invests $36m in Bollywood studio Bhansali Productions, secures exclusive music rights for future films India's oldest music label has the option to increase its stake in the studio to 51% by 2030.
News The UK’s PRS for Music reports largest-ever quarterly royalty payout at $368m, up 4% YoY More than 50,000 song creators will be paid via PRS this quarter, including hundreds of first-time songwriters and composers
News Beatchain launches music platform WAVVI in West Africa via AFROSON1C X partnership WAVVI will offer streaming distribution, AI-powered advertising campaigns, performance and auience analytics and audio mixing tools, among others.
News Berlin startup Mirelo raises $41m in seed funding for AI-generated video sound Founded in 2023, the startup develops foundation models that produce synchronized sound effects for video content.
News Warner India’s Divo names Sony veteran Ashok Parwani as Head of Music Parwani spent two decades at Sony Music India, where he helped build the company’s southern India operations.