News Fernando Cabral de Mello named CEO of Sony Music Entertainment Brazil Sony Music Latin Iberia has announced a new organizational structure for its operations in Brazil
Analysis News From Dua Lipa’s copyright lawsuit win to Concord’s Stem acquisition… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
Interviews 22,100 artists generated over $50k on Spotify last year. The company argues that ‘way more artists are generating meaningful money now than in any previous era of the music industry’. MBW interviews Charlie Hellman, Spotify's Global Head of Music Vertical
News Amanda Kingsland, Shawn Marino named co-heads of A&R at Universal Music Canada The duo have “a renewed mandate to sign, develop, and break the next generation of Canadian artists on the world stage”
News Tyla producer Sammy SoSo hit with lawsuit over Grammy-winning hit ‘Water’ Lawsuit was filed by Olmo Zucca and Jackson LoMastro
News GetReal Security raises $17.5m to combat AI deepfakes GetReal says it 'specializes in the detection and mitigation of malicious generative AI threats'
News Sony Music Publishing signs producer MTech to global deal The deal covers MTech's future songs and catalog, which includes a number of Kendrick Lamar hits
News Megan Ogleby-Page promoted to Head of Operations at UK’s Entertainment Retailers Association Ogleby-Page is described by ERA as 'the driving force behind Record Store Day for over a decade'
News Apple Music integrates with DJ apps to let subscribers mix their entire music library Launch builds on Apple Music's previous DJ-focused initiatives
News Japan’s Teichiku Entertainment, with global ambitions for J-Pop, strikes ‘comprehensive’ deal with Believe to distribute its music worldwide Believe will distribute Teichiku’s entire catalog locally and globally
News AI music remixing platform Hook raises $3m from Kygo’s Palm Tree Crew, The Raine Group and more Hook’s unique selling proposition is that it offers a remedy to the proliferation of unlicensed content on social media
News Chappell Roan producer Daniel Nigro’s Amusement Records to operate as ‘central label venture’ within Universal as part of expanded partnership with UMG Amusement to operate as a "central label venture" within UMG
News Leland strikes strategic partnership with Warp Publishing London-headquartered Warp will 'champion' Leland's composers under the new partnership
News Music publishers ‘remain very confident’ of winning Anthropic case and will ‘vigorously pursue’ monetary damages 'This case remains vital to protecting creators from the wholesale theft of their copyrighted works by Anthropic and other AI companies.'
News UK collection org PPL’s 2024 revenue jumps 6% to record $384M In 2024, PPL distributed payments to over 172,000 performers and recording rightsholders, with 19,300 receiving royalties for the first time
Analysis News UMG’s AI training injunction request shot down by judge in Anthropic lawsuit – but music publishers can now gather more evidence from platform Licensing deals between OpenAI and news publishers suggest damages could be measured if Universal wins, says judge
News Music Nation Partners with SoundExchange to collect and distribute Neighboring Rights in the UAE SoundExchange will provide UAE-based Music Nation with technology, data and industry experience in royalty management
News Vivian Xu named Chief Operating Officer at Universal Music Greater China Vivian Xu was previously Managing Director of Columbia China