Labels, Streaming, YouTube, And Gear News And Views On My Latest Podcast
Music industry professionals still betting on major labels to develop artists should know the system has structurally exited that business. ...
Tag: Streaming
Canada walks back plan to make US audiovisual streaming services pay a bigger Canadian-content levy
The Government of Canada has directed the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to review its decision requiring large audiovisual ...
DJ Screw’s Catalog Is Coming to Streaming for the First Time
DJ Screw’s catalog is finally making it to streaming platforms this month. Starting today with the digital release of the ...
Total revenue up 12.1% YoY to $1.73bn; subscription streaming revenues rose 12.7% YoY
Warner Music Group has issued its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2026 (calendar Q1 – the ...
Tuned Global launches streaming manipulation detection tool aimed at rightsholders and DSPs
Streaming fraud remains one of the biggest concerns facing the global music business, with the use of bots, click farms ...
Streaming Fraud Doesn’t Respect Silos. Neither Should We.
MBW Views is a series of op-eds from eminent music industry people… with something to say. The following MBW op/ed comes ...
Are Bots Taking Over Music?
The chatter around streaming bots grew noticeably louder in August 2025, when a prison phone call between Young Thug and ...
Recorded music revenues in Italy grew +10.7% YoY last year; paid streaming revenues in the market jumped 14.1% YoY
Italy’s recorded music market generated $579 million in trade revenues in 2025, up +10.7% YoY, largely driven by a double-digit jump ...
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 ...
