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Independence in an interdependent industry.
This MBW op/ed comes from Richard Leach, CEO of Curve Royalty Systems. Source
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View allIndependence in an interdependent industry.Music Business Worldwide · 2h agoPanic! at the Disco company sues online sellers over counterfeit merchMusic Business Worldwide · 4h agoUniversal Music Group sues DistroKid, accusing it of ‘unlawful practices’ and ‘flooding platforms with AI-generated slop’Music Business Worldwide · 4h agoSpotify’s former Head of Innovation raises $5.5m pre-seed for music app startup; Dawn Ostroff among the backersMusic Business Worldwide · 8h ago5 things You Need to Know About ElevenLabs, the UMG AI partner with an $11B valuation – and big ambitions in music.Music Business Worldwide · 10h agoSamsung moves to dismiss Dua Lipa’s $15M lawsuit, arguing she holds no trademark in her own imageMusic Business Worldwide · 11h ago
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View allPanic! at the Disco company sues online sellers over counterfeit merchMusic Business Worldwide · 4h agoSuno hires ex-Hightouch CFO Cherry Miao as its first finance chief: ‘Music is one of the things that makes humans human’Music Business Worldwide · 11h agoNon-English-speaking artists now account for 30% of Live Nation’s top 50 tours – but 47 of the top 75 international markets lack modern arenas to host themMusic Business Worldwide · 1d agoEitaro Shibasaki named Chief Business Officer at Warner Music JapanMusic Business Worldwide · 1d agoUniversal Music and Warner Chappell partner on launch of Ecuadorian music company Sonido Distrito Sur, led by Juan Fernando VelascoMusic Business Worldwide · 5d agoTime to go private? On Warner, Universal, and dissatisfaction with public market valuations.Music Business Worldwide · 5d ago
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View allUniversal Music Group sues DistroKid, accusing it of ‘unlawful practices’ and ‘flooding platforms with AI-generated slop’Music Business Worldwide · 4h ago5 things You Need to Know About ElevenLabs, the UMG AI partner with an $11B valuation – and big ambitions in music.Music Business Worldwide · 10h agoAI Will Test Music’s Infrastructure, Not Just Its CreativityMusic Business Worldwide · 5d agoUS musicians’ union files opposition to Universal and Warner motions to dismiss, saying members’ recordings were ‘fed into AI systems for commercial exploitation’Music Business Worldwide · 5d agoElevenLabs’ $11B valuation is more than twice the size of Suno’s. It just struck a global AI music deal with UMG.Music Business Worldwide · 5d ago
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Panic! at the Disco company sues online sellers over counterfeit merch
The suit brings two counts under the Lanham Act: trademark infringement and counterfeiting Source
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Universal Music Group sues DistroKid, accusing it of ‘unlawful practices’ and ‘flooding platforms with AI-generated slop’
Key parts of UMG's suit center on DistroKid's alleged involvement with AI-made music. Source
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Spotify’s former Head of Innovation raises $5.5m pre-seed for music app startup; Dawn Ostroff among the backers
The company, which builds apps that let people take apart and rebuild recorded music, was founded in 2024, the same year Zonoozy left Spotify. Source
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5 things You Need to Know About ElevenLabs, the UMG AI partner with an $11B valuation – and big ambitions in music.
UMG and ElevenLabs announced a licensing agreement, which will see the latter build a fan platform for remixes, mashups, and "new track interpretations." Source
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Samsung moves to dismiss Dua Lipa’s $15M lawsuit, arguing she holds no trademark in her own image
The motion is scheduled to be heard on December 14 in the US District Court for the Central District of California. Source
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Oasis announce 38-date Live ’27 tour, with fixed ticket prices and no general onsale
The itinerary takes in Scotland, England, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Italy, the US, and Ireland. Source
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AEG Presents invests in Greenhouse Talent, which promotes nearly 1,500 events a year across Belgium and the Netherlands
Greenhouse Talent will continue to operate from Ghent and Breda under its existing leadership. Source
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ElevenLabs launched Music v2.5 – shortly after announcing its UMG licensing deal.
The model went live on September 11 and is now the default “for prompted and reference generation” in ElevenMusic, the company said. Source
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Suno hires ex-Hightouch CFO Cherry Miao as its first finance chief: ‘Music is one of the things that makes humans human’
Miao oversaw finance, legal, data and revenue operations at Hightouch, and had been both a customer and an angel investor in the company before joining it. Source
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Non-English-speaking artists now account for 30% of Live Nation’s top 50 tours – but 47 of the top 75 international markets lack modern arenas to host them
"It's not going to be that long where I'm sitting here saying now over half of our artists are not U.S., U.K. English-speaking artists," Berchtold told Goldman analyst Stephen Laszczyk Source
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Matt Serletic – Grammy-winning producer, ex-Virgin Records, Amazon Music exec – named Dean of the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music
Serletic is the sixth person to serve as dean of the Frost School of Music, which was established in 1926 and recently marked its 100th anniversary. Source
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Spotify promotes Mia Nygren to Vice President and General Manager for Europe and Latin America
Nygren stepped into the role over the summer, having previously served as the streaming company’s General Manager for Latin America. Source
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In addition to its vinyl move, now Suno is readying a merch store.
Suno is using Fourthwall for the service, which runs stores for brands including New York Magazine, Vox, and Eater Source
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DistroKid, distributing ‘roughly 40%’ of all new music, hasn’t yet signed IFPI’s new anti-fraud standards… unlike CD Baby.
DistroKid has not yet signed up, despite its claim to distribute "roughly 40%" of "all new music in the world" for over 4 million artists. Source