Interviews Scott Cohen on his optimism for the music industry – and JKBX’s ‘transformative’ launch The CEO of new music trading platform speaks to MBW about the future for JKBX and much more
News The MLC has paid out over $1.5bn to songwriters to date Mechanical Licensing Collective issues update on royalties paid to date
News TikTok strikes global deal with DistroKid for indie artists to upload music to TikTok Music and CapCut The deal will see music distributed by DistroKid available across TikTok Music, CapCut, and in TikTok's Commercial Music Library
Analysis News Deezer’s ‘artist-centric’ model now has a new ‘user-centric’ element which, despite not really being ‘user-centric’, is quite a clever idea. MBW Explains: Digging into what Deezer's latest addition to 'artist-centric' really means
News Personalized music for games company Reactional Music strikes deal with Defected Records Defected has licensed the masters for a selection of tracks from its wider catalog for use on Reactional’s music delivery platform and personalization engine
News Caron Veazey joins Three Six Zero’s management/entertainment partnership unit as Partner Veazey brings to the partnership METTE, a new talent fresh from the launch of her EP, METTENARRATIVE (Since 93/RCA).
News BMG, following ‘more efficient and more effective’ strategy under new CEO Thomas Coesfeld, reorganizes structure; around 40 staff cut MBW obtains internal note that confirms a range of changes at Bertelsmann-owned company
Analysis News Universal Music revenues hit $3bn in Q3, driven by sales from superstars like Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift Universal Music Group has published its financial results for Q3 2023
News YouTube Music introduces customized AI-generated playlist art Platform unveils experimental feature that lets users create personalized playlist art using artificial intelligence
News Brazilian authorities take down illegal file-sharing site FileWarez in win for record companies At its peak, the platform boasted over 118,000 registered users
News Grimes and CreateSafe partner with Slip.stream to make 200+ GrimesAI songs available to content creators Partnership will allow creators to incorporate GrimesAI songs in their videos, podcasts and livestreams
News Transgressive Publishing and Warner Chappell UK extend joint venture News arrives as Foals sign a new deal with Transgressive for their catalog, side projects and future recordings
News Juice WRLD estate, Dr. Luke sued over royalties for ‘Not Enough’ The lawsuit also names as a defendant music publisher Opus Music Group, which acquired a large stake in Juice WRLD’s catalog earlier this year.
News AI music startup Boomy partners with fraud detection company Beatdapp to ‘ensure the integrity’ of its platform Around 7% of tracks made on Boomy and then distributed to Spotify were deleted by Daniel Ek's company earlier this year
Analysis The music industry obsesses over the wrong kind of ‘discovery’. MBW founder, Tim Ingham, on the strange reasons we fall in love with artists, and how hard that is to measure