Bang Si-hyuk, Chair of BTS company HYBE, faces arrest warrant bid from Seoul police in IPO probe (report)
Police in Seoul have applied for an arrest warrant for HYBE Chairman Bang Si-hyuk amid an investigation into an alleged ...
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Suno’s licensing talks with major labels in limbo with ‘no path forward’ (Report)
Negotiations between the music industry and AI music startup Suno have stalled, with no deal in sight.That’s according to the ...
Live Nation employees joked about “robbing” ticket buyers, report claims
Messages between Live Nation employees allegedly show them joking about “robbing” ticket buyers and saying, “These people are so stupid,” ...
$uicideboy$ sued in the UK by Rough Trade and Beggars Music over alleged unauthorized sample (report)
US hip-hop duo Suicideboys (aka $uicideboy$) are reportedly being sued by Rough Trade and Beggars Music in the UK.The legal ...
Reservoir receives unsolicited $1.2B bid from activist investor Irenic Capital (report)
Activist investment fund Irenic Capital Management reportedly made an unsolicited takeover bid for Reservoir Media, the Nasdaq-listed independent music company.That’s according ...
Pressured to go viral? Report finds it rarely leads to long-term financial gain
A new report from music financing platform Duetti has found that going viral on social media rarely leads to long-term ...
Sony Group develops tech to track original music in AI-generated songs (report)
Sony Music Group‘s parent company, Japan-headquartered Sony Group, has reportedly developed technology to identify copyrighted music embedded in AI-generated tracks.That’s ...
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 ...
BMG in talks to acquire Concord (report)
BMG Rights Management is reportedly in discussions to acquire Concord, in a deal that would bring together two of the ...
TikTok splits US workforce as ByteDance retains control of key operations (report)
TikTok is reportedly dividing its US staff between two separate entities as it restructures its business under pressure from the ...
