News From the Supreme Court’s Cox ruling to Primary Wave’s Kobalt deal… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up The biggest headlines from the past few days...
News Record labels and Spotify seek $322M default judgment from pirate group Anna’s Archive A motion for default judgment and an accompanying memorandum of law were filed on March 25.
News United Talent Agency promotes seven execs to Partner within music division Elevations span UTA LIVE, Creators, Sports and Filmed Entertainment as agency expands senior leadership ranks
News Deezer licenses AI music detection technology to Hungarian rights organization EJI CMO becomes first in Hungary to deploy Deezer's AI detection tech.
News Australia’s GYRO Group expands into Latin America with new office in Brazil The global music company has opened a new HQ in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil.
News Symphonic acquires music distribution and YouTube monetization platform Distro Nation Jon Baltz, CEO and Co-Founder of Distro Nation, will join Symphonic’s executive team as Head of UGC & Rights Management, along with his team.
News Musixmatch launches ‘Sentinel’ service to detect when copyrighted music and lyrics are used in AI and user-generated content The new service, called Sentinel, draws on the company's lyrics database.
News Watch out Epidemic Sound: Google launches Lyria 3 Pro AI model that can generate 3-minute tracks The tech giant is likely positioning the technology as a direct competitor to royalty-free production music services like Epidemic Sound.
News South Korea’s Kakao Entertainment appoints JungHee Ko as Co-CEO alongside Joseph Chang in leadership restructure Ko takes on an additional role as Chief Platform Officer, overseeing a newly created unit responsible for Kakao Entertainment's platform services
News BMG revenue dipped to €900M in 2025 but EBITDA margin hit record 32% – as catalog investment topped $400M BMG says that its underlying recorded music streaming subscription revenue grew by double digits in 2025
News TuneCore says that tracks within its ‘Accelerator’ platform have generated 50B streams since 2023 The program helped facilitate 15 billion track discoveries, with 515,000 independent artists currently enrolled. That’s up from 450,000 reported a year ago.
News BTS comeback concert drew 18.4M global viewers says Netflix, as attendance figures spark debate The group's first live performance since 2022 was streamed from Seoul's Gwanghwamun Square.
News After teaming up with Sony Music Publishing to acquire Miranda Lambert catalog, Domain Capital closes $768M entertainment fund SMP Nashville and Domain teamed up to acquire Miranda Lambert catalog in January
News US Supreme Court sides with Cox Communications in landmark music piracy case brought by record labels The unanimous decision was handed down on Wednesday (March 25).
News With $50M+ in music rights deals to date, Larrosa’s MusicTraders builds out new M&A team targeting LATAM and emerging market catalogs Invitation-only music rights platform names specialist division as it renovates after six years and $50M+ in deals.
News Timbaland’s AI artist TaTa Taktumi signs with Ne-Yo’s Pacific Music Group The deal names Pacific Music as exclusive Asia manager and worldwide label for the AI project that confirmed its Filipino heritage.
News Apple Music now surfaces concert listings and ticket links via Bandsintown and Ticketmaster deals When a user plays a song, they can pull up the artist, see upcoming dates nearby, and buy a ticket without switching apps.
News Spotify launches SongDNA in beta for Premium subscribers, tracing how songs connect through shared producers, samples and covers SongDNA lets subscribers trace how one song connects to another through shared producers, samples and covers.