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 ...

Suno, the AI-driven music creation app that has been getting attention for its ability to create unnervingly good music, has raised USD $125 million in a Series B funding round. “While Grammy-winning ...

The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) is a trade body based in Washington D.C that represents the interests of music publisher and their songwriter clients in the United States. Founded in ...

Udio, the AI music generation platform facing ongoing litigation from major record labels alongside its competitor Suno, has launched two new updates including an AI-powered style reference feature.

Universal Music Group has responded to today’s dominant music industry news story: That a track featuring AI-replicated Drake ‘vocals’ has gone viral, not only on social media, but also on music ...

MBW’s Stat Of The Week is a series in which we highlight a data point that deserves the attention of the global music industry. Stat Of the Week is supported by music data analytics firm Chartmetric.

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 ...