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Sony Music has targeted 135,000+ deepfakes of its artists’ music for removal from streaming platforms
Sony Music has asked streaming platforms to take down more than 135,000 songs it says were created by fraudsters using...
Streaming fraud man who pocketed $8m using hundreds of thousands of AI songs streamed billions of times by bots pleads guilty
The man at the center of what’s been described as the first-ever criminal prosecution for AI-assisted streaming fraud in the...
Subscription music streaming revenues rose just 2% YoY in Sweden in 2025
Sweden’s recorded music market grew 3% YoY in 2025 to over SEK 2.3 billion ($234 million at the average exchange...
A new WMG deal, an Ed Sheeran collaboration and 10M AI music production users… 3 things we learned from Tencent Music’s Q4 earnings call
MBW Reacts is a series of analytical commentaries from Music Business Worldwide written in response to major recent entertainment events...
BMG sues Anthropic for infringement, alleging AI firm’s $380B valuation was built on ‘stolen copyrighted works’
BMG Rights Management has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Anthropic, the AI giant behind the Claude AI chatbot.The Bertelsmann-owned...
Instrument maker Roland launches AI melody generator powered by research from Sony Computer Science Laboratories
Instrument maker Roland — known for its synthesizers and drum machines, among other things – has launched a new melody-generation...
Tencent Music now has 20M+ ‘Super VIP’ subscribers. Here’s what that means for China’s largest music streamer.
MBW Explains is a series in which we dig behind the headlines, via data and context, to improve your understanding...
Clint Higham, John Esposito, and Kris Lamb launch Nashville label HEY NOW Records; Kenny Chesney is first signing
A new independent music label is entering the Nashville music market, founded by three music industry veterans with backgrounds in...
US wholesale recorded music revenue reached $11.5B in 2025, as paid streaming subscriptions hit 106.5M — adding 6.5M accounts YoY
The United States’ recorded music industry generated USD $11.535 billion in wholesale revenue in 2025, up 3.1% YoY.That’s according to...
Live Nation antitrust trial resumes as 30+ states push on despite DOJ settlement
The antitrust trial against Live Nation Entertainment resumed today (16 March) in a New York federal court, with more than...
