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ASCAP paid out a record $1.76bn to songwriters and publishers in 2025
US performance rights organization ASCAP has reported its revenue and royalty payout numbers for 2025, with both figures hitting all-time...
Warner Music Group plans to sell EMP, the merch business it acquired for $180m in 2018
Warner Music Group intends to divest its EMP business, the European rock and metal merchandise e-retailer it acquired for USD...
NetEase Cloud Music now counts over 1 million registered indie artists
More than 1 million independent artists are now signed directly to NetEase Cloud Music, China’s second-largest music streaming platform.The company...
HYBE posts record annual revenues of $1.86bn for 2025 as K-Pop firm’s concert revenues hit all-time high – but operating profit plunged 73%
South Korea-based entertainment giant HYBE has published its Q4 and FY 2025 earnings.According to the new investor filing, HYBE’s annual...
Scott Borchetta exits HYBE AMERICA
HYBE AMERICA has announced that Scott Borchetta is departing the company.Borchetta has served as the CEO of Big Machine Label...
From UMG’s approved Downtown deal to Spotify’s AI ambitions… 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...
Universal Music’s Downtown acquisition cleared by EU competition regulator
It’s a done deal. The European Commission has approved Universal Music Group‘s proposed $775 million acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings.The...
The Empire Strikes Back: The majors and Merlin gained (a bit) of market share on Spotify last year.
It’s become a perennial trade music industry story: The combined global market share of the three major record companies and...
Songs are reaching 1bn Spotify streams 14x faster than a decade ago, and other stats from Chartmetric’s 2025 Year in Music report
In 2015, it took an average of 2,729 days — roughly seven and a half years — for a song...
Music collectibles platform Wax Poetics closes $1m funding round
Music collectibles platform Wax Poetics has closed a $1 million funding round to fuel the next phase of its growth.Investors...
