Analysis News The 5 most important things to know about HYBE, the music company that just won’t stay out of the headlines HYBE is busy expanding beyond the world of K-pop, but a seemingly endless string of controversies is dragging down the company's public image
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News Musixmatch says LyricFind trying to ‘distract from its business failures’ with antitrust lawsuit LyricFind is suing Musixmatch, arguing that an exclusivity deal with Warner Chappell Music violates US antitrust law
News AWAL elevates Matt Riley to President, Victoria Needs and Sam Potts to co-Managing Directors In 2023, Riley led the UK AWAL Recordings unit alongside Needs and Potts
News Are you watching, Disney? Netflix’s ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ becomes most-viewed original animated film in platform’s history The film, which premiered on June 20, racked up 106.1 million views in its first month
Interviews Sean Momberger: ‘If this happened when I was 21, who knows what would have happened? It probably would have been too much.’ Sean Momberger tells his side of the Not Like Us creation story and also discusses his collaboration with Mustard, the secret of successful sampling, and why AI is the future
News TikTok’s ‘Add to Music App’ feature has fuelled ‘billions’ of streams. Now it’s linked up with YouTube Music. YouTube Music joins Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, Melon, Anghami and SoundCloud in TikTok's music-saving feature
News Stability AI is developing a legit ‘opt in’ artist marketplace… amid lawsuits over unauthorized scraping CEO Prem Akkaraju told the Financial Times that the company now has "zero debt."
News From Concord’s $1.76 billion ABS transaction to Universal Music Group’s EU scrutiny… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up The biggest music biz headlines from the past few days, all in once place.
News Nicki Shamel appointed Head of TuneCore, US Former AWAL exec joins TuneCore as company 'continues its pivot to artist development for self-releasing artists'
Interviews ONErpm’s Emmanuel Zunz: ‘There are no more distribution companies, there are no more record labels. There are just companies providing solutions to creators.’ ONErpm founder Emmanuel Zunz on hitting $300m revenue, the Universal/Downtown deal, and why traditional music industry categories are dead to him
News Denis Ladegaillerie gets his company back: Believe consortium’s ‘squeeze-out’ nearly complete, as firm stops trading in France Just 1.33% of Believe's share capital now isn't owned by Ladegaillerie's consortium – but it will be soon
News Saregama, India’s oldest label, acquires 6,500-track catalog from NAV Records and YouTube channels with combined 24m+ subscribers The acquisition covers 6,500 tracks and YouTube channels with over 24 million subscribers.
News Jennifer Way joins EMPIRE as Executive Vice President, Nashville Exec most recently served as SVP of Marketing at Sony Music Nashville