News Reactional scores $2.8m European Innovation Council grant to scale personalized music as a monetization layer in gaming Firm's patented Reactional Music Engine lets players personalize in-game music and lets developers build soundtracks that react to gameplay in real time
News Influence Media emerges as winning bidder for Anthem’s music assets with $650M+ offer (report) It's the third time in a decade that Anthem has been put up for sale after earlier auctions in 2017 and 2022 failed to draw a high enough bid.
News As Michael Jackson movie nears $1B, Madonna says her biopic has been scrapped The Queen of Pop told Interview magazine that the project collapsed after a falling-out with Universal Pictures over its budget.
News StubHub fined $1.2M by UK market watchdog over hidden fees, ordered to refund more than 50,000 customers The CMA said StubHub UK broke consumer law by adding mandatory charges only at the final stage of checkout, a practice known as drip pricing.
News Sony Music Publishing Scandinavia acquires Sound Pollution Songs catalog of around 5,000 works The acquired catalog includes works performed by acts including Sabaton, Twilight Force, Wormwood, Bonafide, Elaine, Foredoom and Rexoria.
News UMG’s Bravado targets A$AP Rocky merch bootleggers on ‘Don’t Be Dumb’ tour with trademark suit, seizure order A trademark infringement complaint was filed on Thursday June 11
News Cortez Bryant invests in AI-powered artist management platform MNGRS.AI, joins company as Strategic Advisor Manager known for his work with Lil Wayne, Drake and Nicki Minaj becomes the startup's first US-based music industry investor.
Analysis The majors and BMG asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that lets songwriters reclaim copyrights worldwide. Five things to know about Vetter v. Resnik For about 50 years, the industry believed termination only affected US rights. This ruling would make those rights worldwide for the first time.
News Ex-Blackstone exec Vlado Spasov launches $1.5B alternative asset manager Trimontium – music rights among target assets Trimontium says its target areas also include "uncorrelated" asset classes such as IP rights and royalties.
News Spotify wins dismissal of lawsuit claiming it allowed ‘billions’ of fraudulent Drake streams In November 2025, rapper RBX claimed Spotify failed to curb "mass-scale fraudulent streaming," stripping royalties from other rights holders.
News [PIAS] acquires Signum Records, the independent classical label home to The King’s Singers Co-Founder Steve Long will remain as Managing Director, the company announced on Tuesday (June 23).
News Clive Davis, legendary record executive, dies at 94 'We will miss him greatly, cherish him always, and carry his love with us for the rest of our lives,' the Davis Family said in a statement on June 22
News Majors and BMG ask US Supreme Court to overturn copyright termination ruling they say will cause ‘chaos’ The rightsholders said the decision will cause "chaos" across the music business if it is allowed to stand.
News MF Doom estate and Temu reach settlement in lawsuit over alleged knock-off merch The plaintiff, Gas Drawls, LLC, owns the rights to MF Doom's music and intellectual property
News Tech startup RTM Audio launches AI music detector UAI, which issues a signed certificate with every verdict RTM Audio was founded by mixing and mastering engineers Ohad Nissim, Teezio, and Calin Enache, alongside music attorney Matt Buser
News Spotify opens Istanbul office as Turkish music tops 294 billion all-time streams on the platform Spotify says streams of Turkish music on its platform have grown over 190% in five years
News Irving Azoff’s Music Artists Coalition among 31 groups warning against ‘misuse’ of artist and songwriter rights in AI deals Orgs representing artists, songwriters and music managers issue open letter over AI deals
Analysis News From Lionel Richie’s voice trademark bid to the Michael Jackson biopic box-office record… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up The biggest headlines from the past few days...