News Suno hires Ticketmaster’s Michael Chua to lead its live music team, including Songkick In the role, Chua will lead the AI music company's live music operations, which include concert discovery platform Songkick.
News Five-time Grammy winner Drake did not submit any of his three 2026 albums for consideration – joining BTS and Stray Kids in sitting out the 2027 awards (report) Sources told Billboard that the rapper did not submit any songs from Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour to the Recording Academy.
News Warner Chappell Chair and CEO Guy Moot joins NMPA Board of Directors The NMPA announced Moot's appointment a week after he became sole chair of Warner Chappell on October 1.
News Live Nation to sell $730M and €600M of bonds to refinance its 6.5% notes due 2027 The new notes will retire the $1.2 billion of 6.5% debt Live Nation raised in May 2020, during the pandemic concert shutdown.
News Spotify is expanding audiobooks to more than 180 markets and says its Audiobooks+ add-on has passed $100M in annual recurring revenue Spotify said more than 750 million people will be able to stream or buy books on its platform once the rollout is complete.
News Live Nation hit with class action lawsuits over data breach involving Social Security numbers and health records Live Nation's statement came five days after Ticketmaster customers across the US ran into problems with ticket transfers.
News Elon Musk says Grok Bot will use Suno’s AI music models, alongside Anthropic’s Claude and Midjourney Suno does not currently offer an official public API. MBW reported in July that the company was exploring the launch of one.
News Pacific Music Group expands to Tokyo with launch of PMG Japan, signs Japanese rapper JP THE WAVY PMG says JP THE WAVY is PMG Japan's first major signing and that he will begin releasing new music through the partnership this fall.
News HYBE’s Weverse Con Festival to make its international debut in India in 2027 HYBE, home of BTS, calls Weverse Con Festival its “flagship global music festival”, featuring global, K-pop and Indian artists.
News EMPIRE Publishing hires Rimas Publishing’s Emilio Morales as SVP, Business Development for Latin America Morales joins from Rimas Publishing, the company behind the publishing catalog of Bad Bunny, where he served as Managing Director.
News Phono V streaming rate proposals filed with US Copyright Royalty Board, as DIMA points to 30% growth in publishing revenues since 2022 The proceeding will set the mechanical rates on-demand streaming services pay US songwriters and publishers from 2028 through 2032.
News Kakao Entertainment strikes K-pop partnership with Warner’s Atlantic Music Group to develop artists ‘from the earliest stages’ The two companies will work together on global strategy, music production, distribution, marketing, and promotion for K-pop artists.
News Tencent Music integrated DeepSeek into its streaming service. Now parent company Tencent is among the biggest backers of the AI company’s $12B+ funding round (report) DeepSeek has been built into TME's AI songwriting tool, AI assistant, comment sections, and more
News Majors and BMG tell US Supreme Court not to let appeals court decision ‘radically disrupt copyright worldwide’ in songwriter termination rights case January 12 ruling held that termination under US law returns an author's rights across the world, and not only in the US
News ARIA boss tells Australian lawmakers OpenAI and Anthropic are ‘asking Government for a free ride’ on copyright Annabelle Herd warned that changing Australian copyright law to accommodate the two AI companies could make the country "the Trojan horse for Big AI."
News TikTok brings its global ad network to the US and unveils agentic AI tools The ad network, called TikTok Ad Network (TTAN), lets advertisers extend their TikTok campaigns to third-party apps.
News AEG and O2 strike UK’s ‘largest-ever naming rights renewal’ in reported £200M deal Under the deal, O2 and Virgin Media broadband customers will get 50% more tickets to shows at The O2 through Priority Tickets.
News Michael Smith, man behind $8M AI song and bot streaming fraud, sentenced to 18 months in prison US District Judge John G. Koeltl also ordered Michael Smith to forfeit USD $8,091,843.64, the loss figure agreed by both sides.