News Ditto Music, edging towards 1m registered artists, goes on hiring spree to fuel international expansion Brothers Lee and Matt Parsons continue to fully own UK-born global distribution and services platform
News ‘Irresponsible and offensive’: NMPA’s David Israelite does not like IMPALA’s new report on the ‘music streaming pie’. At all. Publishers' association chief calls report questioning slices of revenue pie "irresponsible and offensive"
News After being acquired by Chartmetric, tech platform Onesheet, which can build artist One-Sheets ‘in seconds’ launches first version in beta Onesheet was acquired by Chartmetric in October 2022
Analysis News Indie labels question if record companies’ share of streaming royalties is ‘undervalued’ vs. music publishers’ slice of the pie A new report from indie label group IMPALA asks if recorded music should have seen its share of the streaming pie grow faster
News Primary Wave strikes ‘multi-million dollar’ music rights deal with rock band Skillet Company has acquired their music publishing, as well as the record royalties across five of their albums released from 2003 through 2016
News Reservoir inks publishing deal with Armani White, rapper behind TikTok hit ‘BILLIE EILISH.’ Track has amassed more than 256m streams on Spotify. On TikTok, a video featuring the song amassed 40bn views
Analysis Who owns Warner Music Group today? MBW takes a deep dive through SEC filings to paint a picture of WMG's cap table
News Apple adds concert discovery features to Apple Maps and Apple Music Apple Music expands music curation efforts into the live music space
Analysis Blog TikTok isn’t where ‘stars get started’. Stars start themselves. Music Venue Trust CEO Mark Davyd on the claims made about artist development by digital platforms, and the reality
News HYBE just released a K-pop track sung in six different languages using AI voice technology HYBE releases 'first-ever multilingual track produced in Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and Vietnamese'
News European lawmakers close to launching ‘world’s first rules’ on artificial intelligence Under the draft mandate, AI systems with “an unacceptable level of risk to people’s safety” would be strictly banned
Interviews Austin Daboh on music, tech, AI, and the future of artist marketing The Atlantic Records UK EVP joins the Music Business Worldwide podcast
News From Google’s AI music generator to Robert Kyncl on music streaming’s payout and pricing models… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest music biz headlines from the past week, all in one place
News DiMA recruiting for new President and CEO, as Garrett Levin confirms exit The Digital Media Association represents streaming services including Apple Music, Amazon, Pandora, Spotify and YouTube
Analysis Blog Why the power of AI may hold the key to distributing wealth throughout the music industry (Part 2) This MBW op/ed comes from Ran Geffen, founder of XR connect development agency OMR and CEO of Amusica Song Management in Israel.