Analysis Blog In defence of white noise. The following op-ed comes from long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde
Analysis Universal and Deezer’s ‘artist-centric’ model isn’t shocking. It emulates tech’s most successful titans. Yes, we're talking about it again. Why? Not enough people have connected the dots to Silicon Valley.
News JKBX goes live, featuring listings to reserve shares in royalties from hits by Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran and more superstars Song royalties trading platform JKBX is officially live
News DistroKid acquires website hosting and e-commerce company Bandzoogle Bandzoogle offers various e-commerce tools allowing musicians to market and sell products directly to their fanbases
News Believe says it’s distributed €700 million in royalties in APAC region, as it marks 10th anniversary of expansion into Asia Believe's strategy is to focus on developing local artists in China, India and Southeast Asia.
News TikTok fires back at suggestion it’s hurting paid-for music streaming growth in France: ‘There is no evidence to suggest that TikTok is diverting music fans away from subscription streaming services.’ SNEP targeted short-form video services in comments made last week about France's subscription streaming growth
Analysis OpenAI’s response to Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit shows music rightsholders could be in for a tough fight over copyright and AI OpenAI says a lawsuit over its use of copyrighted materials in training AI algorithms is based on an 'erroneous' understanding of copyright law
News From Concord’s $468.8m Round Hill deal to Universal and Deezer’s new artist-centric model… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days
News Responsibility for AI copyright infringement rests with platforms, and 3 other things we learned from Robert Kyncl’s Goldman Sachs interview Warner Music Group's CEO participated in a Q&A session on Wednesday (September 6) at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia + Technology Conference in San Francisco
News Rimas Publishing partners with music metadata firm Muso.AI Partnership sees Muso.AI expand into the Latin music market
Analysis News On… Deezer nuzzling up to Universal’s ‘artist-centric’ model, a potential mass deletion, and a controversial tweak (update) It's been a big day in the music business – and it's raised a lot of possibilities...
Analysis News Who owns Deezer today? Access Industries is Deezer's biggest shareholder, with ownership of over a third of the company
Analysis News France’s recorded music revenues grew 9.4% YoY in H1 – and the entire Top 10 best-selling artists in the market were local acts Industry body SNEP published its H1 recorded music revenue numbers for the market
News Elliot Grainge joins Warner Music Group as 10K Projects strikes JV with WMG Grainge will also join WMG’s global leadership team
News Queen’s Brian May on AI threat: ‘2023 will be the last year that humans dominate music.’ 'Everything is going to get very blurred and very confusing,' says iconic musician in new interview