News FireAid confirms official lineups for Intuit Dome and Kia Forum The benefit concerts aim to raise funds for communities impacted by the Southern California wildfires
Analysis News 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'
News Global audio streams jumped 14% in 2024 to 4.8 trillion – with pop music the fastest-growing genre in the US Market research firm Luminate named Taylor Swift the top artist of 2024, as well as the top songwriter
News After raising $235m to acquire indie music rights, Duetti hires Netflix exec Sachin Premnath as General Counsel Premnath advised Netflix on music-related aspects of film and TV deals, and ran international content acquisition for Sony Entertainment Network
Analysis News Germany generated nearly 20bn streams per month on average in 2024 The world's fourth-largest recorded music market generated 236 billion streams in 2024
News Sonos takeover speculation grows, with Spotify or Amazon tipped as potential suitors (report) Though Apple, Google, and Meta are potential buyers, they are unlikely candidates due to their existing strategies, a new report says
News Trump signs executive order delaying TikTok ban, as China appears to soften stance on selling app China’s government owns a 1% stake – a so-called ‘golden share‘ – in TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance
News $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 two million rightsholders worldwide.
News FireAid benefit concert expands lineup with Oliva Rodrigo, Peso Pluma, Alanis Morissette, Anderson .Paak and more The benefit concert aims to raise funds for communities impacted by the Southern California wildfires
News Live Nation and Crew Nation pledge $1M for Los Angeles wildfire relief The initiative offers grants of up to $5,000 for musicians, live music crew, and live music industry workers affected by the fires
News After brief shutdown, TikTok restores service in the US as Trump offers ‘assurance’ over divest-or-ban law TikTok is back online in America.
News TikTok goes offline for 170m+ US users, as divest-or-ban law takes effect Google and Apple have also removed TikTok from their app stores to comply with the law.
Analysis News From Drake suing Universal Music to TikTok facing a US ban… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
News 21 Savage, Gunna, Metro Boomin’, and Wiz Khalifa to perform at Balad Beast 2025 in Saudi Arabia The MDLBeast-organized event takes place January 30-31 at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Al-Balad
News Supreme Court upholds law that bans TikTok in the US if parent company ByteDance doesn’t sell the app The clock is officially ticking for TikTok in the United States.