MBW’s Trailblazers series meets Leander Kirschner, founder and CEO of Berlin-based independent music company Bamboo Artists.

YouTube added +25 million subscribers over the past 12 months.

MBW founder Tim Ingham on Amazon’s surprise new tie-up with Suno.

Gaming continues to be a big opportunity for music rightsholders.

HYBE is still feeling effect of BTS’s absence.

Breakr has secured a strategic minority investment from Live Nation Urban.

Attune’s Matt Thomas calls for the industry to wake up over the threat to artists from mental health and addiction.

beatBread CEO Peter Sinclair on why and how the company developed its data-driven comparison tool.

Carletta Higginson, Chief Digital Officer at Warner Music Group, discusses her time on both sides of the copyright line, at DSPs and record companies, as well as the future of streaming and the importance of keeping an open mind.

Benson Boone wins the IFPI Global Single Award for 2024.

MBW Reacts is a series of analytical commentaries from Music Business Worldwide written in response to major recent entertainment events or news stories.

Karl Walsh, head of Warner Music’s WMX division, on what makes brand deals work, what they can mean for fans and what they can do for artists.

As MBW reported earlier today, Sony’s global music rights operation generated USD $2.7 billion in calendar Q4 2024.

Sony’s global music rights operation -- across recorded music and music publishing -- generated USD $2.70 billion in the three months to end of December 2024. That’s according to MBW’s calculations.

ByteDance is fascinated with building music AI technologies.

However, the ruling might not apply to the music industry’s lawsuits against generative AI developers.

Japan proved to be a particular strong market for SM in the latest quarter, as the company celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.

WMG’s leadership team conducted the company’s calendar Q4 earnings call on February 6. MBW listened in, here’s what stood out.

Warner Music Group has published its financial results for the three months ended December 31.

To understand one of the industry’s favorite graphs, a few things first need to be taken into account.

ByteDance appears to have a service in the works that could shake up the global music licensing market.

New data shows that, even as K-Pop gets bigger in the US, album sales declines in its home country in 2024.

Spotify posted a quarterly operating income of over half a billion dollars.

MBW founder Tim Ingham’s latest Review commentary.

Spotify’s partnership-focused exec selects eight tracks that helped shape who he is and what he does.

MBW’s Trailblazers series meets Terry McBride, CEO of Nettwerk Music Group.

A work that combines human creativity with AI can be copyrighted, so long as there is a “sufficient” amount of human expression.

Anthropic’s Claude can still be tempted into referencing Beatles lyrics -- but chatbot refuses to print them verbatim.

Streaming company has paid out nearly $60bn to music rightsholders since Spotify was founded in 2008.

Jennifer Knoepfle, Head of US A&R at Universal Music Publishing Group, reflects on her career in publishing, the biggest challenges and opportunities in the sector today, and the key to being the best possible champion for creatives

Universal and Warner jointly pile on around $4 billion in market cap value following landmark announcement.

Lucas Keller, founder of Milk & Honey, on the Los Angeles wildfires -- and his fury at America’s Most Heartless.

The legendary live agent selects 10 tracks that have shaped his life and career so far.

The following op/ed comes from Mark Douglas, CIO of UK-based music licensing company, PPL.

Artist communities on Weverse grew 30% YoY to 162 in 2024, boosted by the addition of 16 global artist teams including Ariana Grande, Dua Lipa, Megan Thee Stallion, and Conan Gray.

Drake alleges UMG knowingly damaged his reputation and endangered his life through Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us.’

The following MBW Views op/ed comes from Chad Blackwell is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Dream Street Advisors.

The world’s fourth-largest recorded music market generated 236 billion streams in 2024.

TikTok’s Chinese service, Douyin, has also been called out for stalling the fight against counterfeit goods.

MBW founder Tim Ingham’s latest ‘Review’ for MBW+ subscribers.