Peter Edge, RCA's Los Angeles-based CEO, on building careers in an age of shortened attention spans, why "premium" artists are winning in a crowded marketplace, and more Source| Music Business Worldwide
The MLC was designated by the United States Copyright Office (USCO) in 2019 started to administer blanket mechanical licenses in January 2021 Source| Music Business Worldwide
Suno doesn't deny stream-ripping songs from YouTube; the company argues the practice isn't prohibited by the DMCA Source| Music Business Worldwide
House of Carmen was rolled out in September 2024 and has bene operating in "stealth mode" Source| Music Business Worldwide
The Life of a Showgirl became Spotify's most-streamed album in a single day in 2025 so far, reaching the feat in under 11 hours Source| Music Business Worldwide
Claimy cross-references metadata, royalty rates and collection data from organizations like PRS for Music and SACEM to predict what rightsholders should receive. Source| Music Business Worldwide
Another partner confirmed for the industry's most enjoyable night out of the year Source| Music Business Worldwide
The biggest headlines from the past few days – all in one place Source| Music Business Worldwide
One of France's top music industry lawyers has dismissed concerns that UMG might misuse indie label data through its proposed $775m acquisition of Downtown Source| Music Business Worldwide
Universal and Warner are reportedly nearing licensing deals with AI music companies…| Music Business Worldwide
All three majors have now inked direct publishing agreements with Spotify…| Music Business Worldwide
Full extent of expenditure revealed within new SEC filing…| 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
Virgin describes Pope as a “pioneer in the development of the digital music business.”| Music Business Worldwide
Gu comes to Virgin from Fabled Records and has a long portfolio of hits counting billions of streams.| Music Business Worldwide
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
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
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
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
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
Interviews Denis Ladegaillerie sees the future of music. It looks nothing like the past.| 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
This spring, the company is relaunching its music creation platform, with elements inspired by gaming.| Music Business Worldwide
Spotify appears to have revealed this information in a blog post…| Music Business Worldwide
Company’s revenues projected to be up 9%| Music Business Worldwide
Spotify has told industry players that it expects the new 1,000-play minimum annual threshold will reallocate tens of millions of dollars per year from 0.5% of its current royalty pool to the other 99.5%.| Music Business Worldwide