Mark Robinson joins Virgin Music Group as Executive Vice President, Global Business and Legal Affairs - Music Business Worldwide
Robinson joins Virgin Music Group from Paramount Global…| Music Business Worldwide
Robinson joins Virgin Music Group from Paramount Global…| Music Business Worldwide
Hannah Thompson-Waitt has led commercial initiatives for several projects, including for Clairo, St. Vincent, Amyl and the Sniffers, David Kushner, Tom Odell and Tove Lo.| Music Business Worldwide
Genius is a lyrics database and digital media company focusing on music, based in New York…| Music Business Worldwide
Virgin describes Pope as a “pioneer in the development of the digital music business.”| Music Business Worldwide
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Olson most recently served as President (founding partner) of Litmus Music Source| Music Business Worldwide
LyricFind's lawsuit alleges that Musixmatch's exclusive deal to provide and sub-license Warner Chappell Music lyrics violates US antitrust law Source| Music Business Worldwide
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Tello steps in at SMP Iberia, backed by a decade-plus of music industry success Source| Music Business Worldwide
BMLG reveals series of promotions and a new hire within its international division Source| Music Business Worldwide
The partnership brings Symphonic's distribution platform together with HGM's 'creative vision, fast-release strategy, and artist-first development model' Source| Music Business Worldwide
Eight-time Grammy winner Musgraves has had a relationship with Warner Chappell since she began writing songs for the publisher at the age of 21 Source| Music Business Worldwide
EC has reportedly 'stopped the clock' on the investigation as it awaits requested information Source| Music Business Worldwide
Gu comes to Virgin from Fabled Records and has a long portfolio of hits counting billions of streams.| Music Business Worldwide
Company argues that independent artist lawsuit fails as a matter of law under unique sound recording copyright rules Source| Music Business Worldwide
Spotify says the new feature is meant to 'complement,' not replace, sharing on other social media platforms Source| Music Business Worldwide
After announcing subscription price hikes in numerous markets outside the US earlier this month, Spotify now plans additional price hikes as it works towards sustained profitability. Spotify Co-President and Chief Business Officer Alex Norström told the Financial Times in a recent interview that price adjustments have become “part of our toolbox now” after maintaining flat … ContinuedSource| Music Business Worldwide
Players will be able to unlock all four Gorillaz members’ outfits, Jam Tracks and accessories via the Season 10 Music Pass. Source| Music Business Worldwide
The film outpaced Warner Bros.’ horror film "Weapons," which was reportedly expected to claim the weekend title with $15.6 million. Source| Music Business Worldwide
Lyric Capital is reportedly leading the talks, with The Weeknd already reaching out to other investors to assemble the financing package of up to $1 billion. Source| Music Business Worldwide
The TikTok rival has until October 13 to file its annual report for 2024 and its quarterly reports for the periods ending March 31 and June 30. Source| Music Business Worldwide
However, the judge ruled that the document will have to remain sealed from the public. Source| Music Business Worldwide
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Integration will soon expand to YouTube’s homepage – and to YouTube Music later this year…| Music Business Worldwide
BMI has reached a settlement for the 2022-2026 radio licensing period, calling it a ‘historic’ deal.| Music Business Worldwide
Hall contends that Oates’ sale of his stake in their joint venture violates the terms of their own agreement.| Music Business Worldwide
In 2016, Larry Mestel re-started Primary Wave via a $300 million acquisition fund, whose investors were led by Black Rock…| Music Business Worldwide
Daryl Hall’s attorneys secured a final judgment in arbitration and lodged an order for a Nashville judge to dismiss the case.| Music Business Worldwide
Anthropic may face a new allegation from music companies: That it not only downloaded, but distributed lyrics without permission.| Music Business Worldwide
Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed SoundExchange’s $150 million lawsuit against SiriusXM…| Music Business Worldwide
Atlantic Music Group sits above both Atlantic Records and 300 Elektra Entertainment…| Music Business Worldwide
Julie Greenwald talks Atlantic Records, Craig Kallman, streaming and Lyor Cohen…| Music Business Worldwide
Island’s modern-day artists include Shawn Mendes and Demi Lovato…| Music Business Worldwide
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How a so-called ’emo’ label grew up…| Music Business Worldwide
A federal grand jury has indicted Hank Risan, the 70-year-old founder of music streaming service BlueBeat, on four counts of wire fraud…| Music Business Worldwide
New platform comes from ElevenLabs, whose AI voice technology is used by thousands of businesses and millions of individuals.| Music Business Worldwide
ONErpm founder Emmanuel Zunz on hitting $300m revenue, the Universal/Downtown deal, and why traditional music industry categories are dead to him…| Music Business Worldwide
Nashville-headquartered company announces quartet of newly-signed artists in line with cross-genre growth strategy| Music Business Worldwide
The app is reminiscent of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, both developed by Harmonix. But Beatstar, developed by Space Ape, doesn’t require guitar-shaped game controllers to play as it is purely built for…| Music Business Worldwide
Twenty-three employees of London-based Nextbeat will move to DuoLingo to inform $16 billion-valued firm’s music education offering.| Music Business Worldwide
News After KATSEYE success, HYBE-Geffen launches talent search for second girl group – starting in Japan| Music Business Worldwide
A total of 39 states and the District of Columbia are now asking a court to force the break-up of Live Nation and Ticketmaster.| Music Business Worldwide
“We will defend against these baseless allegations, use this opportunity to shed light on the industry, and continue to push for reforms that truly protect consumers and artists…| Music Business Worldwide
Google is part of Alphabet, and the parent of YouTube…| Music Business Worldwide
Amazon owns music platform Amazon Music, as well as selling a vast range of physical and digital music…| Music Business Worldwide
Michael Rapino is the President & CEO of Los Angeles-headquartered Live Nation Entertainment. He started his career in various marketing and entertainment roles at Labatt Breweries of Canada.| Music Business Worldwide
$500m will be raised via a secured note sale, according to a release published on December 17…| Music Business Worldwide
Live concerts giant sees $1.8bn wiped off market cap valuation in less than a day…| Music Business Worldwide
Pfizer vaccine found to be more than 90%| Music Business Worldwide
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The update to YouTube’s Creator Music marketplace enables video creators to produce AI-generated music via text prompts…| Music Business Worldwide
Will Page updates the data surrounding how local music artists are streaming in their home territories…| Music Business Worldwide
Recovered unpaid royalties accounted for 27% of music publishing revenues last year, the NMPA’s David Israelite said.| Music Business Worldwide
Aventhis, who doesn’t exist, has over a million monthly Spotify listeners. Everything appears to be in order – but it’s not.| Music Business Worldwide
The complaint marks the first major AI copyright challenge from Hollywood studio giants.| Music Business Worldwide
The investment was led by US venture capital firm Sfermion…| Music Business Worldwide
SoundMint says that its NFTs are musical compositions derived from stems…| Music Business Worldwide
Could PIXELYNX build music’s definitive metaverse?| Music Business Worldwide
Founded in 1995, SM Entertainment is one of Korea’s leading producers and exporters of music. A central player in the K-Pop market, its biggest artists in recent times have included the likes of Aespa…| Music Business Worldwide
DAW platform BeatConnect was founded in 2010…| Music Business Worldwide
The round was led by VC firm Drive Capital, with participation from 645 Ventures…| Music Business Worldwide
Steve Cooper says WMG experienced biggest ever quarter in calendar Q4 2019…| Music Business Worldwide
Warner Music Group has confirmed that it’s set to go public on the Nasdaq stock exchange this morning in New York, floating 77 million shares of Class A common stock. Those 77m shares will be…| Music Business Worldwide
Parlophone was a forced divestment following UMG’s EMI Music purchase…| Music Business Worldwide
Len Blavatnik is the Founder and Chairman of the New York, NY-headquartered Access Industries Blavatnik and Access Industries’ focus is deploying long-term capital to companies.| Music Business Worldwide
Warner Chappell Music, the world’s third biggest music publisher, controls over a million musical compositions…| Music Business Worldwide
“We will uphold the stockholder’s value in various terms by raising profitability, growth potential and contributions to society.”…| Music Business Worldwide
David Israelite is the President & CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association, championing songwriters and music publishers…| Music Business Worldwide
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The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) is a trade body based in Washington D.C that represents the interests of music publisher and their songwriter clients in the United States.| Music Business Worldwide
Billboard’s ownership was acquired by PMRC in September 2020…| Music Business Worldwide
Apple Music launched in 2015, and now has more than 60 million subscribers worldwide…| Music Business Worldwide
“It’s not about just being smart and resourceful. You have to be smart, resourceful and out-hustle everyone.”…| Music Business Worldwide
Craig Kallman has led Atlantic Records as CEO since 2005…| Music Business Worldwide
Born from the ashes of Warner Bros Records, Warner Records is a frontline label at Warner Music Group…| Music Business Worldwide
Co-founded by John Janick in 1996, Fueled By Ramen remains an active label at Warner Music Group today…| Music Business Worldwide
Elektra Music Group EMG) is a New York-based frontline label group launched at Warner Music Group (WMG) in October 2018. Led by Mike Easterlin and Gregg Nadel, Elektra Music Group was partly…| Music Business Worldwide
Access Industries, founded in 1986, is the majority owner of Warner Music Group and Deezer…| Music Business Worldwide
Federal Judge Arun Subramanian upheld US states’ standing to seek damages on behalf of consumers.| Music Business Worldwide
Ticketmaster is the world’s largest ticketing company. It has been owned by Live Nation since a merger between the two companies in 2010.| Music Business Worldwide
Live Nation Entertainment is one of the world’s biggest live entertainment companies…| Music Business Worldwide
YouTube was founded in February 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim…| Music Business Worldwide
British executive Sir Lucian Grainge was knighted in 2016…| Music Business Worldwide
Founded in 1976, Apple now carries a market cap valuation in…| Music Business Worldwide
Warner Music Group is the world’s third biggest music rights company…| Music Business Worldwide
John Janick is the CEO and Chairman of the Santa Monica-headquartered Interscope Geffen A&| Music Business Worldwide
Capitol Music Group (CMG) is a frontline umbrella label company owned by Universal Music Group, based in Hollywood, California in the iconic Capitol Tower. The company was led by Chairman &| Music Business Worldwide
Universal Music Group is the world’s biggest music rights company, majority-owned by Vivendi…| Music Business Worldwide
Founded in 1947, Atlantic today stands as Warner Music Group’s biggest frontline label…| Music Business Worldwide
The Daniel Ek story – from Advertigo to uTorrent and, ultimately, Spotify becoming worth tens of billions of dollars…| Music Business Worldwide
SoundCloud is a music streaming service founded in 2007 by Eric Wahlforss and Alexander Ljung…| Music Business Worldwide
Denis Ladegaillerie is a former lawyer and the Founder and CEO of Paris-headquartered distribution and services company Believe, one of the biggest players in the global record industry| Music Business Worldwide
Spotify was founded in 2006, launched in 2008, and floated on the New York Stock Exchange in 2018…| Music Business Worldwide
News Lorena Cabral, Daniela Gutiérrez promoted at Downtown Artist & Label Services, as firm expands presence in Música Mexicana| Music Business Worldwide
TuneCore was acquired by Paris-based Believe in 2015 for a reported $40 million…| Music Business Worldwide
French company was co-founded by CEO Denis Ladegaillerie in 2005…| Music Business Worldwide
Udio says it can create a mastered track from user prompts in less than 40 seconds.| Music Business Worldwide
The holding page of ghostwriter’s now-defunct YouTube upload reads: This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Universal Music Group.| Music Business Worldwide
This spring, the company is relaunching its music creation platform, with elements inspired by gaming.| Music Business Worldwide
