News Politician in France calls for new tax on music streaming services A senator in France has called on the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak to start taxing music streaming platforms
Analysis News From the ‘fake Drake’ AI track to BMG integrating frontline and catalog… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories on MBW from the past seven days
News Warner Music’s WMX launches visual podcast series exploring The Notorious B.I.G.’s final album Series is entitled Iconic Records: Life After Death
Analysis Does YouTube owe Bad Bunny an explanation – or a bigger check? Bill Werde juxtaposes record numbers for Latin music in the US with YouTube's historical payouts to music rightsholders
Analysis News Meta launches latest round of layoffs, as company’s market cap value rebounds Round of layoffs announced in March began on Tuesday (April 18), according to reports
News GloRilla sued for alleged copyright infringement over sample used on ‘Tomorrow’ Lawsuit comes from Ivory Paynes, part of the 1990s New Orleans rap outfit Dog House Posse.
News Thomas Sharp Maxwell promoted to General Manager USA at IDOL, as firm plots North American expansion Promotion follows the hire of Allison Kleshefsky, its New York-based DSP Editorial & Partnerships Lead last year
News Drake sued for alleged copyright infringement over sample used on ‘Calling My Name’ Ghanaian rapper Obrafour has filed a lawsuit against Drake
Analysis Thoughts on Ghostwriter, Drake, AI… and why the music industry shouldn’t panic Andy Chatterley gives his perspective on the story the whole business is talking about
News Utopia Music slashes 15% of global workforce; over 300 staff laid off at company in past 6 months MBW recently broke the news that Utopia had sold music publishing platform Sentric to Believe just a year after Utopia itself acquired the firm
News Audio file management startup Myxt, founded by ex-Google and Stripe developers, raises $2m Company was founded in 2018 by Chris Wetherell and Sheena Pakanati
News SoundCloud partners with Feature.fm to provide marketing tools to indie artists Feature.fm's services include shareable and trackable pre-save and smart links
News Universal Music Group responds to ‘fake Drake’ AI track: Streaming platforms have ‘a fundamental responsibility to prevent the use of their services in ways that harm artists’ UMG calls on streaming services to choose the right 'side of history'
News Apple Music, Deezer, TIDAL pull down viral AI ‘fake Drake and The Weeknd’ track (update) Ghostwriter's heart on my sleeve has now surpassed 625,000 plays on Spotify
News Lawmakers in US state of Montana pass bill to ban TikTok Lawmakers in the US state voted in favor of the move on Friday (April 14)