News Jorja Smith’s label FAMM seeks share of royalties from viral track ‘I Run’ amid AI allegations, calls for industry ‘guardrails’ to protect artists Label claims the track was created using AI trained on the British singer's music
Interviews Brad Navin on The Orchard, working with ‘great entrepreneurs’, and the growing importance of D2C Navin, a 22 year veteran of the company, has led The Orchard to surpass USD $1 billion in annual revenues
News Karaoke startup Singa strikes licensing deal with indie music rep Merlin The development comes six months after Singa secured a similar deal with Warner Music Group.
News Deezer users globally averaged 122.8 hours of music listening over the past year This year's Deezer recap adopts a romantic comedy theme, with scenes the company describes as a "meet cute" and "happily ever after."
News Robert Kyncl signs new deal as Warner Music Group’s CEO New deal includes PSU package and options tied to company share price performance
News Quebec wants to set quotas for streaming of French-language music. A new poll shows little support for the idea. Music streamers oppose a proposed law that would place quotas on the amount or proportion of French-language content on DSPs in Quebec
News Australian local music is in decline, and UK, Canada aren’t far behind, new report warns Streaming recommendation algorithms favor content in the user's language. That isn't working well for countries like Australia, Canada and the UK
Analysis ‘Metadata is the industry’s weak spot; in the age of AI, the cost of half-measures is far higher.’ AI might be sending seismic tremors through the music industry, but, says Sammy Andrews, it is also exposing some pretty severe fault lines that already existed…
Analysis Has Suno just become a very different kind of superfan app? The addition of Songkick may hint at Suno's future at the cross-section of superfan activity
News Amuse has paid $10m in advances to DIY artists via its AI-powered ‘Fast Forward’ platform to date The DIY music distribution company says it has handed out 50,000 automated royalty advances since launching the service in 2019.
News Warner Music strikes global distribution deal with Ultra Music India Ultra Music's library spans more than 14,000 tracks across Hindi “Bollywood” film soundtracks, along with regional, folk, and devotional music.
Analysis News One of Suno’s latest investors will be of particular interest to the music industry… Hallwood Media has invested into Suno after signing ‘artists’ whose music was created on the generative AI platform
News Armada strikes catalog deal with UK dance music artist Sonique The deal includes worldwide rights to Sonique's UK No. 1 hit 'It Feels So Good.'
Interviews Spinefarm’s Jonas Nachsin on 30 years in rock & metal and working with acts from Slipknot to Sleep Token MBW's World Leaders series meets Jonas Nachsin, General Manager (Worldwide) of Spinefarm Music Group.
News Austin Daboh OBE, EVP of Warner’s Atlantic Records UK, exits Daboh was hired by Atlantic in the EVP position in June 2020