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Pepsi and Diageo withdraw sponsorship of UK’s Wireless Festival as Kanye West booking sparks backlash
Pepsi and Diageo have withdrawn their sponsorship of London’s Wireless Festival following a wave of political condemnation over the event’s...
A folk musician had her voice cloned by AI – and her recordings claimed by a copyright troll. Welcome to 2026.
The music industry’s latest collision with AI technology has arrived — and this time it involves voice cloning, copyright claims...
TikTok’s distro service SoundOn cracks down on manipulated audio via ACRCloud partnership to intercept unauthorized tracks
SoundOn, the music distribution and promotion platform owned by TikTok, is cracking down on unauthorized uploads by deploying a new...
Rostrum Pacific’s FatBeats acquires physical distro company Traffic Entertainment Group, plus D2C store and label Get On Down
FatBeats, the New York-founded indie hip-hop distributor and e-commerce retailer now owned by Rostrum Pacific, has acquired Massachusetts-based distribution company...
Yale Law School scholars back UMG in Drake’s ‘Not Like Us’ defamation fight, arguing rapper ‘consented’ to Kendrick Lamar’s lyrics
Two amicus briefs filed on Friday (April 3) in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit have...
Meta touts Instagram as music superfan hub in new Luminate study
A new study commissioned by Meta from analytics firm Luminate positions Instagram as the music industry’s most concentrated superfan environment...
From WMG swooping for Revelator to UMG’s €500 million share buyback program… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s Weekly Round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit...
UMG and Believe settle lawsuit that alleged ‘industrial-scale’ copyright infringement of Universal’s music
Universal Music Group and Believe have settled the copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the Paris-headquartered music company and its distribution...
Wyclef Jean and Jaeson Ma’s D2C service OpenWav launches Snafu-backed indie artist financing platform
OpenWav, a direct-to-fan platform co-founded by Wyclef Jean and 88rising’s Jaeson Ma, has launched a new financing service for independent...
Dialled In Records launches in London focused on South Asian music in partnership with The Collective, part of Universal Music UK’s Island-EMI
Universal Music Group UK’s Island-EMI has partnered with South Asian culture platform Dialled In to launch Dialled In Records, a...
