Direct-to-fan platform Bandcamp has revealed that artists and labels have been paid out $154 million via its Bandcamp Friday ...

Music Business Worldwide presents the final four rising stars from Vevo’s DSCVR Artists To Watch 2026, starting with… Chiara ...

The ByteDance-owned platform has signed a joint venture agreement with Oracle, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi’s MGX that is set to ...

IPRS will license the service in India while PRS for Music will handle processing, matching reported music usage with registered works and distributing royalties.

YouTube says it will soon stop providing data to Billboard for inclusion in the US charts, ending a partnership that has lasted more than a decade. The decision, announced today (December 17) by ...

Across the course of his career, Grainge has worked with the likes of ABBA, Drake, Elton John, Jay Z, Katy Perry, Queen, Rihanna, The Rolling Stones, Sam Smith, U2 and Amy Winehouse. Grainge is a “sir ...

A quarter of music producers are now using AI in their craft – although a significant majority show signs of resistance to the technology, over fears of losing creative control. Continue to article ...

Credit: Spotify Spotify founder Daniel Ek introduced 150,000 audiobooks to Premium subscribers on the service earlier this month. In Q1 2024, MBW hears, significant changes will be introduced as to ...

Commenting on the absence of UMG’s catalog on the platform in the three new markets at launch, TikTok tells MBW: “Our goal is to offer our users a full catalog of music”. The company adds: “We are in ...

As first reported by The Verge, the new tool was spotted by users on the ByteDance-owned social media platform over the past week. The tool doesn’t generate music, but rather lyrics, using an LLM ...

US-based music rights investment firm GoldState Music has expanded its portfolio through two strategic acquisitions, purchasing catalogs from CatchPoint Rights Partners and AMR Songs for about USD ...

The company has named Gustav Söderström (co-President and Chief Product and Technology Officer) and Alex Norström (co-President and Chief Business Officer) as its new co-Chief Executive Officers.