musicbusinessworldwide.comadded August 2026
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug3d ago
Warner Music Group‘s ADA Central Europe has signed an exclusive worldwide digital distribution agreement with Swiss label Sound Distribution.
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug3d ago
Warner Music Group has promoted Ahmed Nureni to Managing Director of Warner Music MENA, its Middle East and North Africa business.
Music Business Worldwideby Murray Stassen3d ago
Universal Music Group‘s team is now managing more than 130 artists across Southeast Asia. That’s according to Adam Granite, CEO of UMG’s Africa, Middle East and Asia (AMEA) division, who said the...
Music Business Worldwideby Rafaela Fornitani3d ago
Big Loud Records has appointed Dusty Miller as President of Catalog Acquisitions. In the new role, Miller will oversee the label’s strategy for sourcing, evaluating, and acquiring music catalogs...
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug4d ago
By the end of September, Sony Music had asked digital platforms to take down more than 260,000 AI-generated tracks impersonating its artists.
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug4d ago
The Recording Academy will go ahead with its Best Asian Pop Music Performance category at the 2027 Grammy Awards. Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr.
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug4d ago
Beatport, the music platform for DJs and producers, has secured new financing led by Square Nine Capital.
Music Business Worldwideby Murray Stassen4d ago
A US federal appeals court has rejected a fair use defense over the use of copyrighted material to train an artificial intelligence model.
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug4d ago
Live Nation is backing Creator Nation, a company set up to buy and grow creator-management firms.
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug4d ago
Sony Music UK has hired Jack Fryer from Universal Music to lead its catalog, digital media agency, and sync teams.
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug4d ago
Erica Campbell‘s record label has settled its royalty lawsuit against former distributor SRG/ILS Group.
Music Business Worldwideby Rafaela Fornitani6d ago
This week, Warner Music Group sold EMP, the German rock and metal merch retailer it acquired for $180 million in 2018, to whynow, the media and commerce company founded by Gabe Jagger.
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug6d ago
Bill Withers‘ publisher is suing UMG, Capitol Records, Sony‘s publishing arm, and Kobalt over an Olivia Dean track.
Music Business Worldwideby Music Business Worldwide6d ago
Tyler Brown, founder of London-based Funfair, forged at Simon Cowell’s Syco, which Brown joined as an A&R assistant in 2008.
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug6d ago
Michael Smith is due to be sentenced in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday (October 6) in what the US Attorney’s Office has called the first criminal case involving artificially inflated music...
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug6d ago
Warner Music Mexico has promoted Yusim Aladro to General Manager. Aladro joined the company at the start of the year as Director of Marketing.
Music Business Worldwideby Mandy Dalugdug7d ago
Willard Ahdritz left Kobalt Music Group on July 7, the day Primary Wave Music‘s acquisition of the company closed. Twelve weeks later, he has a new firm.
Music Business Worldwideby Rafaela Fornitani7d ago
Universal Music Group has promoted Frank Briegmann to Chairman & CEO of Universal Music Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada & Deutsche Grammophon.
Music Business Worldwideby Rafaela Fornitani7d ago
Warner Music Central Europe has appointed Nici Ochmann as its Head of Culture & Creator Marketing.
Music Business Worldwideby Music Business Worldwide7d ago
DDEX is the not-for-profit body that sets the formats music companies use to exchange data, from details of new releases to sales reports.
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