Analysis 3 things you might have missed from Universal’s Q3 earnings call Music fans want to see AI improve their listening experience, not replace human artists, UMG's research found
News Adobe’s new Firefly can create ‘custom, fully-licensed’ AI soundtracks for video Adobe says its AI music tool was 'trained on licensed content... and public domain content where copyright has expired'
News Spotify scraps shuffle restriction for users of free tier Ad-supported users can now 'Pick and play' any songs on demand from within a playlist, bypassing the automatic shuffle mode for freemium. Queuing remains a premium feature.
News Spotify is finally launching lossless – but it’s not part of a ‘super premium’ tier Lossless listening is rolling out to Spotify Premium subscribers
News Anthropic to pay authors $1.5bn to settle lawsuit over using pirated books to train AI Anthropic agreed to pay $3,000 per work to a settlement fund that is expected to cover roughly 500,000 titles.
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News Anthropic’s value balloons to $183bn after securing $13bn in latest funding round Anthropic’s valuation has grown from $61.5 billion following a $3.5 billion funding round in March.
News Tuned Global expands Social Radio platform with real-time tipping feature The new tipping feature lets fans support artists, DJs, and creators live
News From Taylor Swift’s masters victory to HYBE’s eventful week… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days
News HYBE launches subsidiary in China, as K-Pop giant’s global expansion continues China is the world's fifth-largest recorded music market
News HYBE America sells Big Machine Rock label to Gebbia Media Scott Borchetta, founder of Big Machine Label Group, to join advisory board Gebbia Media parent Siebert Financial
News Pex acquired by copyright protection and content monetization company Vobile Vobile works with entertainment companies, platforms, sports leagues, music labels, and publishers.
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News You’ve heard of superfan app Weverse. Now the parent company of HYBE’s arch-rival has launched a direct competitor. Meet Berriz. In addition to music fans, Berriz will also cater to fans of drama, film, webtoons, musicals, and other IP
Analysis News The major record companies lost market share again on Spotify last year. But BMG and ‘artist-centric royalties’ make this a more complicated picture than it first appears. To understand one of the industry's favorite graphs, a few things first need to be taken into account