YouTube Music Subscribers Are Still Surging in 2026, Data Reveals
YouTube Music’s still boomin’ in ’26: YouTube Global Head of Music Lyor Cohen (Photo: Noa Griffel)Earlier this week, Apple Music ...
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Judge vacates order that sealed Udio’s ‘confidential’ data in Sony Music’s copyright lawsuit
A federal judge has vacated an order that kept portions of Sony Music Entertainment‘s copyright lawsuit against AI music platform ...
Suno moves to keep size of its AI training data sealed in UMG and Sony’s copyright case, citing ‘competitive harm’
Suno has asked a federal court to keep secret the exact number of audio files it used to train its ...
What ‘blue dot fever’? Live Nation CFO says ‘There is absolutely no data that supports any issues’ with ticket sales.
Joe Berchtold, Live Nation‘s President & CFO, has a message for anyone worrying about the firm’s concert ticket sales: Don’t.Speaking ...
The Music Industry Has a Data Crisis. Octave Media Says There’s Hope.
Octave Media’s Matt JacobyThe music industry of 2026 is exploding everywhere all-at-once, with catalog investments, creative outputs, and AI-generated mayhem ...
Suno is now the ‘controller’ of Songkick user data – and is hiring a GM to wire it into its AI music platform
Suno has formally assumed control of Songkick user data — presumably including artist preferences and location information built up through ...
Secretly Distribution acquires music data and analytics firms Entertainment Intelligence and Babel Ops
Secretly Distribution has acquired Babel Ops, the technology company behind music data and analytics platform Entertainment Intelligence (Ei).The deal, announced ...
Mitchell Shymansky appointed Chief Data & Technology Officer at Create Music Group
Create Music Group has appointed Mitchell Shymansky as Chief Data & Technology Officer, the company announced on Wednesday (February 11).Shymansky ...
Chartmetric 2025 Data Shows Artists Are Surging Faster Than Ever
Average number of days required for songs to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify, 2015-2025 (Source: Chartmetric)Hit songs are happening ...
From YouTube pulling its data from Billboard’s charts to HYBE’s new partnership with Tyla’s managers… 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 ...
