22 January 2024Former Hipgnosis exec Tom Stingemore launches new platform, ALLOY, to streamline sync licensing News
19 January 2024Canada’s CMRRA and SX Works Global Publisher Services strike partnership with Barbados’ COSCAP News
19 January 2024From Triller owing rightsholders over $23.6m to the MLC’s plans to audit DSPs… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up News
19 January 2024Merck Mercuriadis seems willing – currently – to trade in his ‘call option’ at Hipgnosis Songs Fund. So why is the company’s board offering to ‘bribe’ potential bidders with a £20 million bung in an attempt to offset it? News
19 January 2024Nonesuch Records to celebrate 60th anniversary throughout 2024 with special events, reissues and more News
19 January 2024TikTok is testing an ‘AI Song’ tool that uses a large language model for lyric generation News
19 January 2024Brooke Salisbury joins Sony Music UK as Senior Vice President, International Marketing & Digital Partnerships News
18 January 2024YouTube layoffs to hit 100 employees as company reorgs music and other media teams News
18 January 2024The MLC issues notices of intent to audit Spotify and other DSPs to verify the accuracy of their royalty payments News
18 January 2024BBC 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq and Music Ally’s Stuart Dredge to launch ‘The Price of Music’ industry podcast News
18 January 2024Stability AI’s former VP of Audio launches certification for AI models that respect copyrights News
18 January 2024TRAX, a web3 music startup for ‘superfans’, raises $2.9M in decentralized funding round News
17 January 2024Republic Records makes chart history, with 8 of the Top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 for two straight weeks News
17 January 2024Triller owes music rightsholders more than $23m (which it doesn’t have the cash to pay). Oh, and it’s just purged 200m bot/duplicate accounts from its platform. Oh, and it still wants to IPO. News
17 January 2024A different kind of streaming fraud: Over 1m ‘manipulated’ tracks are on audio streaming services News
17 January 2024US Supreme Court decision on Apple App Store likely means more conflict with app developers News
17 January 2024‘When you’re making records, there’s always the odd moment when you don’t know what the hell you’re doing, but it generally passes – don’t panic is the important thing’ News
17 January 2024Music-making platform BandLab launches sync licensing program for its 60m+ registered users News
17 January 2024Stevie Spring named Chair of the board at PRS, as collection society unveils its ‘AI principles’ News
17 January 2024Sony Music Masterworks forms joint venture with London-based live entertainment firm Roast Productions News
16 January 2024Daniel Ek says he’s ‘probably the least powerful person in Spotify,’ and 3 other things we learned from his recent Norges Bank interview News