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Confirmed: Spotify and Universal have a new deal – including a direct agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group in the US
Both sides of the deal have now confirmed their fresh alliance. And, as MBW’s sources nodded to earlier… for the first time ...
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From Suno being sued by GEMA to Weverse’s 150m lifetime downloads… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our ...
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Key Songs in the Life of… Kirk Sommer
MBW’s Key Songs In The Life Of… is a series in which we ask influential music industry figures about the tracks that have – ...
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10,000 AI tracks uploaded daily to Deezer, platform reveals, as it files two patents for new AI detection tool
CEO Alexis Lanternier said the company plans to ‘exclude’ fully AI-generated tracks ‘from algorithmic and editorial ...
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Global audio streams jumped 14% in 2024 to 4.8 trillion – with pop music the fastest-growing genre in the US
The new report confims – perhaps surprisingly – that the pop music genre grew faster than Latin music in the US in 2024, ...
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Drake’s deal is up for renegotiation in 2025, and other revelations from his lawsuit against Universal Music
Drake alleges UMG knowingly damaged his reputation and endangered his life through Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us.’ ...
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Music AI raises $40m in Series A round, as its Moises platform hits 50m users
Music AI co-founders Geraldo Ramos, Eddie Hsu, and Jardson Almeida. Including the latest investments, Music AI says it has ...
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‘It’s a great time to be an independent music company – just ask investors.’
MBW Views is a series of exclusive op/eds from eminent music industry people… with something to say. The following op/ed ...
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UMG’s Frank Briegmann advocates for robust copyright protection on AI panel at World Economic Forum in Davos
Last March, for example, Roland and UMG published the Principles for Music Creation with AI, a manifesto for the responsible ...
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Daniel Ek sells another $29m in Spotify stock as total cash-out nears $600m
The Spotify boss divested $57.1 million worth of company stock in January, bringing his total share sales since July 2023 to ...
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Here’s the list of music piracy sites being watched by the US government, and what they do
MBW Explains is a series of analytical features in which we explore the context behind major music industry talking points – ...
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$500m-valued Suno hit with new copyright lawsuit from Germany’s GEMA
GEMA represents the copyrights of around 95,000 members in Germany (composers, lyricists, music publishers) as well as over ...