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The Circuit Group launches Label Services division with key hires; Appoints Chief Strategy Officer
The Circuit Group, a music company founded by music industry veterans from artist management firms Seven20 and AYITA, has announced...
How Sony’s $6bn+ M&A splurge has set the pace for music acquisitions over the past decade
MBW Reacts is a series of analytical commentaries from Music Business Worldwide written in response to major recent entertainment events...
A2IM CEO Dr. Richard James Burgess to step down after 10 years
Dr. Richard James Burgess is stepping down as President and CEO of The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) at...
From Robert Kyncl’s NMPA keynote to music publishers’ FTC complaint against Spotify… 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 our headlines...
Feid hit with copyright lawsuit over sample used in ‘Ferxxo 100’
Latin music artist Feid has been hit with a lawsuit for alleged infringement on his 2022 hit Ferxxo 100 and...
EMPIRE partners with Bandcamp to bring artists including Shaboozey, Key Glock and Asake to the D2C platform
Bandcamp, which describes itself as the “world’s largest super fan platform” has partnered with EMPIRE to expand retail opportunities for...
US music publishing revenue jumped 10.7% to $6.2bn in 2023… outstripping recorded music’s growth in percentage terms
The US music publishing industry is facing a new challenge in the form of Spotify’s unexpected reduction to its mechanical...
Robert Kyncl turns up heat on PRO metadata matching, and other things we learned from his NMPA keynote in New York
Each year, hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties globally are not paid to the correct rightsholders due to incomplete...
HYBE eyes creator economy expansion with new THEUS superfan app
Binary Korea, a subsidiary of South Korean Entertainment giant HYBE that focuses on tech R&D including Web3 and blockchain, is...
Spotify hit with US Federal Trade Commission complaint from music publishers over audiobook bundle
When this story is done and dusted, Spotify might ask itself, ‘When we bundled music and audiobooks to reduce the...
