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Complete Music Update (CMU)
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Drake still wants Universal Music held liable for defamation over its release of Kendrick Lamar’s “certified pedophile” lyric in diss track ‘Not Like Us’. With defamation cases, context is everything, but Drake now argues the judge who dismissed his defamation…
International
Complete Music Update (CMU)
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Kanye West’s upcoming tour continues to contract amid ongoing controversies over past antisemitic conduct. A concert in Poland, only announced last week, has already been cancelled after the country’s culture minister criticised the show. A stadium in Switzerland has also…
International
MusicAlly
vor 1 day
We reported last week on Laufey becoming the latest artist to headline a season of Fortnite Festival, the music game-within-the-game on Fortnite. But it turns out her activation on the platform goes further than this. Sony Immersive Music Studios has teamed…
International
MusicAlly
vor 1 day
No need to look puzzled: A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is not, in fact, a vinyl-themed boozer in Tokyo’s youth-culture hotspot. It’s actually a “music software label” founded by Máuhan M. Zonoozy, who used to he head of innovation at Spotify. Although…
International
MusicAlly
vor 1 day
Sam Altman is best known as the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, but he’s got another project called ‘World’ that is suddenly directly relevant to the music industry. Sharply summarised by Wired as “Sam Altman’s iris-scanning, humanity-verifying World project” in a recent…
International
MusicAlly
vor 1 day
Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest is one of the hottest music-political potatoes in the world right now, just under a month before the event in Austria. In December, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia pulled out of this year’s…
International
MusicAlly
vor 1 day
The box-office revenues for Spain’s live-music industry grew to €807.2m in 2025, but that’s only part of the picture for the economic impact of the country’s concerts and festivals. Now legal and business-management firm Sympathy for the Lawyer has published a…
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Music Business Worldwide
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The volume of fully AI-generated music being uploaded to Deezer has surged again Source
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Google Alert 5
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Logo des Composers Club e.V.. Hauptrubrik. Musikwirtschaft. Banner Full-Size. Aufhebung von „E“ und „U“ – warum die GEMA ihre Kulturförderung neu …
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Google Alert 5
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Dort bündeln zahlreiche Akteure der internationalen Musikwirtschaft bereits seit bald 20 Jahren ihre Aktivitäten rund ums Thema der Vereinheitlichung …
International
Complete Music Update (CMU)
vor 4 days
Parliament’s culture select committee has published a report based on the input of thousands of music fans. It calls for the creation of a new Music Fan Association, as well as urging the government to act on the agent of…
International
Complete Music Update (CMU)
vor 4 days
Live Nation lost the big antitrust legal battle in the US, with a jury concluding that it operates an illegal monopoly that negatively impacts on artists and fans. It was a dramatic conclusion to a seven week trial – but…
International
MusicAlly
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Ahead of the second weekend of the Coachella festival, with the Stagecoach festival to follow later in the month, California’s governor Gavin Newsom has published a Big Number on the two events’ economic value to the state. Together, the festivals generate…
International
MusicAlly
vor 4 days
Global advertising body the IAB and PwC have released their ‘2025 Internet Advertising Revenue Report’, which tracks a 13.9% increase in those revenue last year to $294.6bn – a record total. Within that, social advertising revenues grew by 32.6% to…
International
MusicAlly
vor 4 days
“I started my management company upstairs on the fifth floor,” Yungblud’s manager Tommas Arnby told Music Ally from the artist’s new brick and mortar shop, Beautifully Romanticised Accidentally Traumatized (B.r.a.t.) on Denmark Street in London. “There were two desks and…
International
MusicAlly
vor 4 days
This week lyric licensing and data company LyricFind announced Artist Unlimited, a new subscription plan which allows artists to create professional-tier videos using software courtesy of Rotor Videos. Users on the platform can quickly create visualisers, lyric videos, social media…
International
MusicAlly
vor 4 days
Coachella weekend one just wrapped. Here are the highlights for artist teams: Justin Bieber leaned into millennial nostalgia, triggering his biggest streaming day since 2025 and a 24.6 million stream surge. While many songs from his catalogue are populating the…
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Music Business Worldwide
vor 5 days
News arrives as live music becomes an increasingly important revenue stream for K-pop's biggest companies Source
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MusicAlly
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South Asian actors are far likelier to make it to Time magazine’s annual of the 100 Most Influential People in the World than south Asian musicians, so it helps if […] The post is from Music Ally.
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MusicAlly
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During her keynote address at the All About Music conference in Mumbai in August 2025, IFPI CEO Victoria Oakley said that India had “192m users on free streaming in India, […] The post is from Music Ally.
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Music Business Worldwide
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Live Nation antitrust verdict explained Source
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Music Business Worldwide
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TuneCore is celebrating its 20th anniversary. MBW meets up with two of its senior execs to reflect on the journey so far, the careers launched and the lessons learned – as well as a look at the current landscape and…
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Music Business Worldwide
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Firm says original sample creators will be compensated when their sounds are used to generate new material Source
International
MusicAlly
vor 5 days
When Live Nation settled with the US Department of Justice a few days into its antitrust trial last month, the expectation was that it would reach a similar settlement with the state attorneys general who were also suing it. It did not,…
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Google Alert 5
vor 6 days
Im Vorfeld des Reeperbahn Festivals richten Hamburg Music und die im Forum Musikwirtschaft engagierten Verbände auch 2026 wieder das …
International
Music Business Worldwide
vor 6 days
Landmark verdict could reshape the live entertainment industry. Source
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Music Business Worldwide
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Merlin CEO, Charlie Lexton, addresses THAT fallout with TikTok – and Merlin's own anti-fraud progress Source
International
Complete Music Update (CMU)
vor 6 days
If you sample a tiny snippet of a track in a new track, do you need permission from whoever owns the original recording? The answer to that question in Europe was previously “yes” but is now “maybe”, thanks to the…
International
Complete Music Update (CMU)
vor 6 days
Kanye West has voluntarily postponed a planned show in Marseille. There were reports that French ministers were planning on following the lead of the UK government, which withdrew permission for West to perform in the country after he was announced…
International
Music Business Worldwide
vor 6 days
Throughout 2026, Spotify will boost visibility for independent venues through existing features including venue pages and its Live Events Feed. Source
International
MusicAlly
vor 6 days
Splice is launching three new GenAI tools for musicians and producers, including ‘Variations’. But it is also stressing the ethics. The post is from Music Ally.
International
MusicAlly
vor 6 days
We say ‘notional’ because there is surely very little chance of getting this money. Nonetheless, Spotify and the three major labels have won a default judgement against Anna’s Archive. That’s the site that announced before Christmas that it had scraped metadata and…
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MusicAlly
vor 6 days
UK charity the Music Venue Trust has ignited a new row with collecting society PRS for Music over the fees that the latter charges. The post is from Music Ally.
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Google Alert 5
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Musikwirtschaft. Banner Full-Size. Wie weiter im Streit um Kraftwerk-Beat? EuGH setzt Maßstäbe. Autor. dpa · Valeria Nickel. Publikationsdatum. 14.04.
International
Complete Music Update (CMU)
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A Copenhagen collective that allows artists to share works in progress has called itself Spoiler Room ever since it launched in 2022, but is now changing its name after receiving a cease and desist letter from the lawyers at dance…
International
Music Business Worldwide
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In 2025, PPL paid royalties to more than 182,000 performers and recording rightsholders, including 16,000 who received payments for the first time. Source
International
MusicAlly
vor 1 week
Universal Music Group’s digital chief Michael Nash sat down with Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava at last week’s HumanX AI conference, offering the latest insight into how both companies see the AI-music space. Nash went in hard on “the false narrative…
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Music Business Worldwide
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BMG taps Warner Music Group veteran to drive its SYNC+ strategy, strengthening its global sync and music-for-media operations. Source
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Music Business Worldwide
vor 1 week
Dennis Hausammann was a rising rapper before setting out to build AI-powered tools for indie label founders. Source
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Music Business Worldwide
vor 1 week
The HYBE-owned label is targeting an X account that allegedly distributed unreleased songs and other album assets before ARIRANG dropped. Source
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MusicAlly
vor 1 week
I’ve always been drawn to authentic storytelling. Sync is such a great opportunity to get our artists’ stories in front of a large audience. The post is from Music Ally.
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Google Alert 5
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Rheinland-Pfalz kartiert seine Musikwirtschaft. Recorded & PublishingRheinland-Pfalz kartiert seine Musikwirtschaft. MusikWoche Vol. 16/2026. Live …
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Rheinland-Pfalz kartiert seine Musikwirtschaft. Recorded & PublishingRheinland-Pfalz kartiert seine Musikwirtschaft. Anzeige. Bei Universal Music …
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Im Rahmen der von der IFPI unterstützten Operation Authêntica des Justizministeriums im brasilianischen Bundesstaat São Paulo wurde jüngst erneut …
International
MusicAlly
vor 1 week
The latest study exploring musicians’ views on the music-streaming economy comes from the Oxford Internet Institute and researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. They surveyed 1,200 musicians for a report that deliberately focused its attention beyond the…
International
Music Business Worldwide
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The YouTube Music Individual plan is rising from $10.99 to $11.99 per month Source
International
MusicAlly
vor 1 week
“I woke up one morning and saw a track with a horrible cover that says I’m a saxophonist – which I’m not. But it also says I produced this record and put it at the top of my profile. I…
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Music Business Worldwide
vor 1 week
New label 'creates opportunities for artists across Germany, Switzerland, and Austria (GSA)' Source
International
Music Business Worldwide
vor 1 week
Spotify is rolling out new toggles that allow listeners to switch off video content, including Canvas visuals and podcast videos. Source
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Music Business Worldwide
vor 1 week
British rock band Supertramp sold more than 60 million albums since they were formed in 1970. Source
International
MusicAlly
vor 1 week
Guest column: Music Ally publishes guest columns voicing the opinions of notable authors, or advancing specific perspectives on important issues. These are chosen at the Editorial team’s discretion, are not paid-for, and do not necessarily reflect Music Ally’s own opinion.…
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Your browser does not seem to support iframes. Click here to read this PDF. Created using FlowPaper Flipbook Maker ↗ document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function(){ var target_element, iframe_element; iframe_element = document.querySelector("iframe.flowpaper-class"); target_element = document.querySelector(""); iframe_element.style.height = target_element.offsetHeight + "px"; }); The post Ausgabe…
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MusicAlly
vor 2 weeks
We’re now nearly two decades into the resurgence of vinyl as a music format, with the IFPI recently hailing a 19th consecutive year of growth for record sales in 2025. But recent years have also seen a sustained comeback – admittedly…
International
MusicAlly
vor 2 weeks
Ticketmaster is the latest music-related company to launch a ChatGPT app, hoping to capitalise on the growing number of people using chatbots as search engines. “Fans can now discover events and explore ticket options directly inside ChatGPT, without needing to…
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MusicAlly
vor 2 weeks
Spotify has pivoted energetically towards video in recent years, particularly in its podcasts business. But the company appears to have now recognised that not every user is as enthusiastic about the shift. Its latest features make it easier to turn video…
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Musikfonds
vor 2 weeks
245 Anträge wurden beim aktuellen Call 61 für die Album- und titelbezogene Förderung eingebracht. Der Fachjury standen 384.700 Euro zur Verfügung und wurden Förderungen für 20 Produktionen (teilweise bedingt) zugesprochen; dem standen Anträge mit einem Fördervolumen von rund 4,4 Mio…
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Music Business Worldwide
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Artists can secure direct cash advances without giving up equity or transferring ownership of copyrights. Source
