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Who’s about to buy Suicideboys’ music publishing catalog ?
It’s being billed as one of the largest music catalog deals involving a modern ‘frontline’ act: New Orleans duo Suicideboys...
Mercury Records promotes Tyler Arnold to chairman/CEO and Ben Adelson to president/COO
Mercury Records has promoted Tyler Arnold to Chairman & CEO and Ben Adelson to President & COO.They will report to...
AI unicorn Anthropic raises another $3.5bn, boosting valuation to $61.5bn
Anthropic has raised $3.5 billion in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, valuing the AI startup at $61.5...
Superstruct revenues jumped 26% to $222m in 2023 – the year before it was acquired by KKR in a $1.4bn deal
Live music events organizer and promoter Superstruct Entertainment reported a 25.9% YoY increase in revenue for 2023 – the year...
Hazel Savage joins electronic music education platform Syntho as CEO
Hazel Savage, a prominent music-tech entrepreneur and the former CEO and co-founder of Musiio, has joined UK-based music startup Syntho...
Sony Music, DNS Capital lead $16m Series A funding round for AI licensing platform Vermillio
An AI “licensing and protection” platform called Vermillio has raised $16 million in a Series A funding round led by...
Drake reaches settlement with iHeartMedia in legal dispute over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’
iHeartMedia has settled a court dispute with Drake over allegations the radio network received “payola” from Universal Music Group (UMG)...
Snoop Dogg says he’s ditching Spotify for Web3 platform Tune.FM
Hip-hop mogul Snoop Dogg has officially partnered with blockchain-based music streaming service Tune.FM, potentially marking his shift away from traditional...
Artist marketing platform un:hurd music attracts fresh investment from EMPIRE
San Francisco-based independent label, distribution and publishing company EMPIRE has made a strategic investment in un:hurd music, a platform specializing...
Riot Games, Epic Games, and Tuned Global on the future of music in gaming
This year’s most-anticipated entertainment release isn’t an album, a movie, or a TV series. It’s a video game.Rockstar Games’ Grand...
